5 papers
Quantum-cosmological corrections to inflationary spectra from Gaussian wave packets
Sebastien Sonet, Alessandro Tronconi, Giovanni Venturi
In the context of quantum cosmology, we study quantum entanglement in solutions of the Wheeler--DeWitt equation for a homogeneous inflaton--gravity system coupled to perturbations.…
An Effective Theory for Higgs Inflation
A. Tronconi, G. Venturi
The generation of large curvature perturbations associated with the production of primordial black holes is studied in the context of a Higgs inflaton. To enable this amplification…
Scale Invariant Dark Energy
Alessandro Tronconi, Giovanni Venturi
A global scale-invariant Dark Energy model based on Induced Gravity with the addition of a small contribution is examined. The scalar field (quintessence), playing the role o…
Superpotential method and the amplification of inflationary perturbations
Alexander Y. Kamenshchik, Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva, Augustin Tribolet +3
The superpotential method is a reconstruction technique which has proven useful to build exact cosmological solutions. We here employ the superpotential method in order to reconstr…
Relaxation of first-class constraints and the quantization of gauge theories: from "matter without matter" to the reappearance of time in quantum gravity
Roberto Casadio, Leonardo Chataignier, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik +3
We make a conceptual overview of a particular approach to the initial-value problem in canonical gauge theories. We stress how the first-class phase-space constraints may be relaxe…