3 papers
hep-th2021
Cosmological consequences of a principle of finite amplitudes
Caroline Jonas, Jean-Luc Lehners, Jerome Quintin
Over 30 years ago, Barrow & Tipler proposed the principle according to which the action integrated over the entire 4-manifold describing the universe should be finite. Here we expl…
hep-th2020
No-boundary solutions are robust to quantum gravity corrections
Caroline Jonas, Jean-Luc Lehners
The no-boundary proposal is a theory of the initial conditions of the universe formulated in semi-classical gravity, and relying on the existence of regular (complex) solutions of…
gr-qc2019
Transition from inspiral to plunge into a highly spinning black hole
Geoffrey Compère, Kwinten Fransen, Caroline Jonas
We extend the Ori-Thorne-Kesden procedure to consistently describe the non-quasi-circular transition around the ISCO from inspiral to plunge into a black hole of arbitrary spin, in…