[工程科技]Thecosmologicalvacuumambiguity_effectiveactions_andtransplanckianeffectsininflati.pdfVIP

The cosmological vacuum ambiguity, effective actions, and transplanckian effects in inflation ∗ † ∗∗ Koenraad Schalm , Gary Shiu and Jan Pieter van der Schaar 4 0 ∗Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0 Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10 027. 1 2 †Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. 2 c ∗∗Department of Physics, CERN, Theory Division, 1211 Geneva 23. 3 e D Abstract. We provide a prescription for parametrizing the vacuum choice ambiguity in cosmological settings. We introduce 3 an arbitrary boundary action representing the initial conditions. A Lagrangian description is moreover the natural setting 2 to study decoupling of high-energy physics. RG flow affects the boundary interactions. As a consequence the boundary conditions are sensitive to high-energy physics through irrelevant terms in the boundary action. Using scalar field theory as 1 an example, we derive the leading dimension four irrelevant boundary operators. We discuss how the known vacuum choices, v e.g. the Bunch-Davies vacuum, appear in the Lagrangian description and square with decoupling. For all choices of boundary 8 conditions encoded by relevant boundary operators, of which the known ones are a subset, backreaction is under control. All, 8 moreover, will generically feel the influence of high-energy physics through irrelevant (dimension four) boundary corrections. 2