Condensation of Planckian Modes and the Inflaton
| dc.creator | Brout, Robert | |
| dc.date | 2003-05-14 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-25T17:06:26Z | |
| dc.description | To confront the transplanckian problem encountered in the backward extrapolation of the cosmological expansion of the momenta of the modes of quantum field theory, it is proposed that there is a reservoir, depository of transplanckian degrees of freedom. These are solicited by the cisplanckian modes so as to keep their density fixed and the total energy density of vacuum at a minimum. The mechanism is due to mode - reservoir interaction, whereupon virtual quantum processes give rise to an effective mode-mode attraction. A BCS condensate results. It has a massless and massy collective excitation, the latter identified with the inflaton. For an effective non dimensional mode-reservoir coupling constant, g approx 0.3, the order of magnitude of its mass is what is required to account for cosmological fluctuations i.e. O(10^-6 -> 10^-5)m_Planck. | |
| dc.description | Recipient of Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay competition 2003. 6 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0305054 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0305054 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/45796 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Condensation of Planckian Modes and the Inflaton | |
| dc.type | text |