Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-11-08
Nucl.Phys.B782:1-25,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages, one diagram, various clarifications, references updated, version to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.05.005
Inflation allows the problem of the Arrow of time to be understood as a question about the structure of spacetime: why was the intrinsic curvature of the earliest spatial sections so much better behaved than it might have been? This is really just the complement of a more familiar problem: what mechanism prevents the extrinsic curvature of the earliest spatial sections from diverging, as classical General Relativity suggests? We argue that the stringy version of "creation from nothing", sketched by Ooguri, Vafa, and Verlinde, solves both of these problems at once. The argument, while very simple, hinges on some of the deepest theorems in global differential geometry. These results imply that when a spatially toral spacetime is created from nothing, the earliest spatial sections are forced to be [quasi-classically] exactly locally isotropic. This local isotropy, in turn, forces the inflaton into its minimal-entropy state. The theory explains why the Arrow does not reverse in black holes or in a cosmic contraction, if any.
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