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Identifying cosmological perturbations in group field theory condensates
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 27 May 2015
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The authors' main claim In this sense, GFT condensates are quantum homogeneous geometries that also contain statistical information about cosmological inhomogeneities.
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One proposal for deriving effective cosmological models from theories of quantum gravity is to view the former as a mean-field (hydrodynamic) description of the latter, which describes a universe formed by a 'condensate' of quanta of geometry. This idea has been successfully applied within the setting of group field theory (GFT), a quantum field theory of 'atoms of space' which can form such a condensate. We further clarify the interpretation of this mean-field approximation, and show how it can be used to obtain a semiclassical description of the GFT, in which the mean field encodes a classical statistical distribution of geometric data. In this sense, GFT condensates are quantum homogeneous geometries that also contain statistical information about cosmological inhomogeneities. We show in the isotropic case how this information can be extracted from geometric GFT observables and mapped to quantities of observational interest. Basic uncertainty relations of (non-commutative) Fourier transforms imply that this statistical description can only be compatible with the observed near-homogeneity of the Universe if the typical length scale associated to the distribution is much larger than the fundamental 'Planck' scale. As an example of effective cosmological equations derived from the GFT dynamics, we then use a simple approximation in one class of GFT models to derive the 'improved dynamics' prescription of holonomy corrections in loop quantum cosmology.
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| s0 | One proposal for deriving effective cosmological models from theories of quantum gravity is to view the former as a mean-field (hydrodynamic) description of the latter, which describes a universe formed by a 'condensate' of quanta of geometry. | background 1.00 | 0.07 | 0.07 | hedged possibility 0.77 |
| s1 | This idea has been successfully applied within the setting of group field theory (GFT), a quantum field theory of 'atoms of space' which can form such a condensate. | background 1.00 | 0.08 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | We further clarify the interpretation of this mean-field approximation, and show how it can be used to obtain a semiclassical description of the GFT, in which the mean field encodes a classical statistical distribution of geometric data. | contribution 0.87 | 0.93 | 0.20 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | In this sense, GFT condensates are quantum homogeneous geometries that also contain statistical information about cosmological inhomogeneities. | interpretation 0.98 | 0.53 | 0.25 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | We show in the isotropic case how this information can be extracted from geometric GFT observables and mapped to quantities of observational interest. | contribution 0.74 | 0.94 | 0.15 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | Basic uncertainty relations of (non-commutative) Fourier transforms imply that this statistical description can only be compatible with the observed near-homogeneity of the Universe if the typical length scale associated to the distribution is much larger than the fundamental 'Planck' scale. | result 0.60 | 0.72 | 0.27 | asserted 0.86 |
| s6 | As an example of effective cosmological equations derived from the GFT dynamics, we then use a simple approximation in one class of GFT models to derive the 'improved dynamics' prescription of holonomy corrections in loop quantum cosmology. | result 0.66 | 0.93 | 0.14 | asserted 0.99 |
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One proposal for deriving effective cosmological models from theories of quantum gravity is to view the former as a mean-field (hydrodynamic) description of the latter, which describes a universe formed by a 'condensate' of quanta of geometry. This idea has been successfully applied within the setting of group field theory (GFT), a quantum field theory of 'atoms of space' which can form such a condensate. We further clarify the interpretation of this mean-field approximation, and show how it can be used to obtain a semiclassical description of the GFT, in which the mean field encodes a classical statistical distribution of geometric data. In this sense, GFT condensates are quantum homogeneous geometries that also contain statistical information about cosmological inhomogeneities. We show in the isotropic case how this information can be extracted from geometric GFT observables and mapped to quantities of observational interest. Basic uncertainty relations of (non-commutative) Fourier transforms imply that this statistical description can only be compatible with the observed near-homogeneity of the Universe if the typical length scale associated to the distribution is much larger than the fundamental 'Planck' scale. As an example of effective cosmological equations derived from the GFT dynamics, we then use a simple approximation in one class of GFT models to derive the 'improved dynamics' prescription of holonomy corrections in loop quantum cosmology.
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A first quantized area operator in GFT can be defined for a tetrahedron as in Ref. [ref] : $Â=κ∑_i=1^4√(-Δ_i)$, where the sum runs over all the faces of the tetrahedron, in analogy with the LQG area operator.
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Some first steps have also been taken in the extension of GFT condensate cosmology to the study of cosmological perturbations, restricted to homogeneous metric perturbations [ref] , and to inhomogeneous geometries reconstructed from the statistical distribution over homogeneous geometries provided by the condensate density [ref] .
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GFT condensates have already been exploited in the context of cosmology and black holes, with a growing list of interesting results [ref] , but proving that condensed phases may be dynamically realized in GFT remains an open challenge.
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