Open inflation and the singular boundary

Details Open inflation and the singular boundary Open inflation and the singular boundary

1998-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803210v1

Phys.Rev. D61 (2000) 047301

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

7 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.61.047301

The singularity in Hawking and Turok's model (hep-th/9802030) of open inflation has some appealing properties. We suggest that this singularity should be regularized with matter. The singular instanton can then be obtained as the limit of a family of ``no-boundary'' solutions where both the geometry and the scalar field are regular. Using this procedure, the contribution of the singularity to the Euclidean action is just 1/3 of the Gibbons-Hawking boundary term. Unrelated to this question, we also point out that gravitational backreaction improves the behaviour of scalar perturbations near the singularity. As a result, the problem of quantizing scalar perturbations and gravity waves seems to be very well posed.

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