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Real no-boundary wave function in Lorentzian quantum cosmology

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 96, Issue 4, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.043505

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  1. National Science Foundation of Belgium (FWO) [G092617N, G.0.E52.14N]
  2. KU Leuven [C16/16/005]
  3. European Research Council [ERC-2013-CoG 616732 HoloQosmos]
  4. James Arthur Fellowship

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It is shown that the standard no-boundary wave function has a natural expression in terms of a Lorentzian path integral with its contour defined by Picard-Lefschetz theory. The wave function is real, satisfies the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and predicts an ensemble of asymptotically classical, inflationary universes with nearly-Gaussian fluctuations and with a smooth semiclassical origin.

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