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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 29, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/29/15/155014
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The purpose of this work is to use a renormalized quantum scalar field to investigate very early cosmology, in the Planck era immediately following the big bang. Renormalization effects make the field potential dependent on length scale, and are important during the big bang era. We use the asymptotically free Halpern-Huang scalar field, which is derived from renormalization-group analysis, and solve Einstein's equation with Robertson-Walker metric as an initial-value problem. The main prediction is that the Hubble parameter follows a power law: H equivalent to (a) over dot/a similar to t(-p), and the universe expands at an accelerated rate: a similar to exp t(1-p). This gives 'dark energy', with an equivalent cosmological constant that decays in time like t(-2p), which avoids the 'fine-tuning' problem. The power law predicts a simple relation for the galactic redshift. Comparison with data leads to the speculation that the universe experienced a crossover transition, which was completed about seven billion years ago.
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