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Inflation and topology from the no-boundary state

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The no-boundary wavefunction for slow-roll inflation on the 3-sphere exponentially favors a small universe, in sharp disagreement with observations. We show that this problem is resolved by changing the spatial topology to the 3-torus. The sum over the ${\rm SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$ family of geometries, computed using the theory of automorphic forms for ${\rm GL}(3)$, produces a wavefunction favoring a large inflating universe with ${\cal N} \gtrsim 250$ $e$-folds. We also compute corrections to the CMB power spectrum induced by torus moduli fluctuations.

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2026 1

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