Study of the Inflationary Spectrum in the Presence of Quantum Gravity Corrections
arXiv:2303.00117 · doi:10.3390/universe9040169
Abstract
After a brief review of the different approaches to predict the possible quantum gravity corrections to quantum field theory, we discuss in some detail the formulation based on a Gaussian reference frame fixing. Then, we implement this scenario to the determination of the inflationary spectrum of primordial perturbations. We consider the quantization of an inhomogeneous free massless scalar field on a quasi-classical isotropic Universe, developing a WKB expansion of the dynamics at the next order in the Planckian parameter, with respect to the one at which standard QFT emerges. The quantum gravity corrections to the scale invariant spectrum are discussed in a specific primordial cosmological setting and then in a general minisuperspace formalism, showing that there is no mode-dependent effect and thus the scale invariant inflationary spectrum is preserved. Such result is discussed in connection to the absence of a matter backreaction on the gravitational background in the considered paradigm.
24 pages. Discussion expanded and references added; matches the published version
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