Initial Conditions for Extended Inflation

del Campo, Sergio; Vilenkin, Alexander

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.40.688

Initial Conditions for Extended Inflation

Sergio del Campo
(
- Tufts U.
)
,
Alexander Vilenkin
(
- Tufts U.
)

May 15, 1989

9 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 40 (1989) 688

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.40.688

Report number:

TUTP-89-5

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Abstract: (APS)

The wave function of the Universe is calculated for an inflationary cosmological model with a variable gravitational "constant." The resulting probability distribution for the initial states of the Universe is peaked at the highest maximum of the effective potential, V=Vmax, with the initial value of the Planck mass mP(0)∼Vmax14.

SPACE-TIME
FIELD THEORY: SCALAR
MODEL: INFLATION
BOUNDARY CONDITION
ASTROPHYSICS: WAVE FUNCTION
APPROXIMATION: EFFECTIVE POTENTIAL
GRAVITATION: FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANT

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