https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08599-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Discussions about the landscape of possibilities for treatments of cosmic inflation involving continuous spontaneous localization models
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Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Grupo de Astrofísica, Relatividad y Cosmología, Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque S/N 1900, La Plata, Argentina
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CONICET, Godoy Cruz 2290, 1425, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Emeritus, Department of Physics, Hamilton College, 13323, Clinton, NY, USA
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Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 70-543, 04510, Mexico, DF, Mexico
Received:
13
August
2020
Accepted:
24
October
2020
Published online:
4
November
2020
In this work we consider a wide variety of alternatives opened when applying the continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) dynamical collapse theory to the inflationary era. The definitive resolution of many of the issues discussed here will have to await, not only for a general relativistic CSL theory, but for a fully workable theory of quantum gravity. Our concern here is to explore these issues, and to warn against premature conclusions. This exploration includes: two different approaches to deal with quantum field theory and gravitation, the identification of the collapse-generating operator and the general nature and values of the parameters of the CSL theory. All the choices connected with these issues have the potential to dramatically alter the conclusions one can draw. We also argue that the incompatibilities found in a recent paper, between the CSL parameter values and the cosmic microwave background observational data, are associated with specific choices made for the extrapolation to the cosmological context of the CSL theory (as it is known to work in non-relativistic laboratory situations) which do not represent the most natural ones.
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