Quantum Gravity Slows Inflation

Abstract

We consider the quantum gravitational back-reaction on an initially inflating, homogeneous and isotropic universe whose topology is $T^3\times \Re$. Although there is no secular effect at one loop, an explicit calculation shows that two-loop processes act to slow the rate of expansion by an amount which becomes non-perturbatively large at late times. By exploiting Feynman's tree theorem we show that all higher loops act in the same sense.

19 pages, plain TeX, 1 Postscript file, uses psfig.sty, revised June 1996 for publication in Nuclear Physics B

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