Published December 15, 2006
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Journal article
Why the Universe started from a low entropy state
Creators
- 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)
Description
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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.123510;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0511102v3;
Publishing Information
- 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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38035925
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; COSMOLOGY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DISTURBANCES; ENTROPY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; PHASE SPACE; SUPERSELECTION RULES; UNIVERSE; WAVELENGTHS
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; INSTABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMA INSTABILITY; SELECTION RULES; SPACE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2006 The American Physical Society