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Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, 2012, Volume 171, Number 1, Pages 162–176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4213/tmf6889
(Mi tmf6889)
 

Can quantum effects due to a massless conformally coupled field avoid gravitational singularities?

J. Haro

Department of Applied Mathematics~I, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract: Using quantum corrections from massless fields conformally coupled to gravity, we study the possibility of avoiding singularities that appear in the flat Friedmann–Robertson–Walker model. We assume that the universe contains a barotropic perfect fluid with the state equation $p=\omega\rho$, where $p$ is the pressure and $\rho$ is the energy density. We study the dynamics of the model for all values of the parameter $\omega$ and also for all values of the conformal anomaly coefficients $\alpha$ and $\beta$. We show that singularities can be avoided only in the case where $\alpha>0$ and $\beta<0$. To obtain an expanding Friedmann universe at late times with $\omega>-1$ (only a one-parameter family of solutions, but no a general solution, has this behavior at late times), the initial conditions of the nonsingular solutions at early times must be chosen very exactly. These nonsingular solutions consist of a general solution (a two-parameter family) exiting the contracting de Sitter phase and a one-parameter family exiting the contracting Friedmann phase. On the other hand, for $\omega<-1$ (a phantom field), the problem of avoiding singularities is more involved because if we consider an expanding Friedmann phase at early times, then in addition to fine-tuning the initial conditions, we must also fine-tune the parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$ to obtain a behavior without future singularities: only a one-parameter family of solutions follows a contracting Friedmann phase at late times, and only a particular solution behaves like a contracting de Sitter universe. The other solutions have future singularities.
Keywords: cosmological singularity avoidance, semiclassical approximation, conformal anomaly.
Received: 02.02.2011
Revised: 12.04.2011
English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2012, Volume 171, Issue 1, Pages 563–574
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-012-0055-0
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Document Type: Article
Language: Russian
Citation: J. Haro, “Can quantum effects due to a massless conformally coupled field avoid gravitational singularities?”, TMF, 171:1 (2012), 162–176; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 171:1 (2012), 563–574
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