Published November 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Planck scale inflationary spectra from quantum gravity

  • 1. Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna (Italy)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Bologna, and I.N.F.N., Sezione di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna (Italy)

Description

We derive the semiclassical evolution of massless minimally coupled scalar matter in the de Sitter space-time from the Born-Oppenheimer reduction of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. We show that the dynamics of trans-Planckian modes can be cast in the form of an effective modified dispersion relation and that high energy corrections in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation produced during inflation remain very small if the initial state is the Bunch-Davies vacuum

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 103501-103501.6
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society