Possible relationship between initial conditions for inflation and past geodesic incompleteness of the inflationary spacetime
According to the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin (BGV) theorem an expanding region of spacetime cannot be extended to the past beyond some boundary $\mathcal{B}$. Therefore, the inflationary universe must have had some kind of beginning. However, the BGW theorem says nothing about the boundary conditions on $\m...
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Zusammenfassung: | According to the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin (BGV) theorem an expanding region of
spacetime cannot be extended to the past beyond some boundary $\mathcal{B}$.
Therefore, the inflationary universe must have had some kind of beginning.
However, the BGW theorem says nothing about the boundary conditions on
$\mathcal{B}$, or even about its location. Here we present a single-scalar
field model of the Two-Measures Theory, where the non-Riemannian volume element
$\Upsilon d^4x$ is present in the action. As a result of the model dynamics, an
upper bound $\varphi_0$ of admissible values of the scalar field $\varphi$
appears, which sets the position of $\mathcal{B}$ in the form of a spacelike
hypersurface $\Upsilon(x)=0$ with a boundary condition: $\Upsilon\rightarrow
0^+$ as $\varphi\rightarrow\varphi_0^{\,\,\,-}$. A detailed study has
established that if the initial kinetic energy density $\rho_{kin}^{(in)}$
prevails over initial gradient energy density $\rho_{grad}^{(in)}$ then there
is an interval of initial values $\varphi_{in}^{(min)}\leq \varphi_{in} |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2303.00249 |