Published December 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Why the Universe started from a low entropy state

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astrononmy, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599-3255 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213 (United States)

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We show that the inclusion of backreaction of massive long wavelengths imposes dynamical constraints on the allowed phase space of initial conditions for inflation, which results in a superselection rule for the initial conditions. Only high energy inflation is stable against collapse due to the gravitational instability of massive perturbations. We present arguments to the effect that the initial conditions problem cannot be meaningfully addressed by thermostatistics as far as the gravitational degrees of freedom are concerned. Rather, the choice of the initial conditions for the universe in the phase space and the emergence of an arrow of time have to be treated as a dynamic selection

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 123510-123510.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society