Quantum Cosmology from Group Field Theory Condensates: a Review

We give, in some detail, a critical overview over recent work towards deriving a cosmological phenomenology from the fundamental quantum dynamics of group field theory (GFT), based on the picture of a macroscopic universe as a ''condensate'' of a large number of quanta of geometr...

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Опубліковано в: :Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
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Автори: Gielen, S., Sindoni, L.
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Опубліковано: Інститут математики НАН України 2016
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Цитувати:Quantum Cosmology from Group Field Theory Condensates: a Review / S. Gielen, L. Sindoni // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2016. — Т. 12. — Бібліогр.: 135 назв. — англ.

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Quantum Cosmology from Group Field Theory Condensates: a Review / S. Gielen, L. Sindoni // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2016. — Т. 12. — Бібліогр.: 135 назв. — англ.
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2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 83C45; 83C27; 83F05; 81T27
DOI:10.3842/SIGMA.2016.082
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/147844
We give, in some detail, a critical overview over recent work towards deriving a cosmological phenomenology from the fundamental quantum dynamics of group field theory (GFT), based on the picture of a macroscopic universe as a ''condensate'' of a large number of quanta of geometry which are given by excitations of the GFT field over a ''no-space'' vacuum. We emphasise conceptual foundations, relations to other research programmes in GFT and the wider context of loop quantum gravity (LQG), and connections to the quantum physics of real Bose-Einstein condensates. We show how to extract an effective dynamics for GFT condensates from the microscopic GFT physics, and how to compare it with predictions of more conventional quantum cosmology models, in particular loop quantum cosmology (LQC). No detailed familiarity with the GFT formalism is assumed.
This paper is a contribution to the Special Issue on Tensor Models, Formalism and Applications. The full
 collection is available at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/Tensor Models.html.
 We thank Martin Bojowald, Daniele Oriti, Andreas Pithis and Edward Wilson-Ewing and the
 anonymous referees for helpful comments on the manuscript. The research leading to these
 results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European
 Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement
 n
 o 622339 and from the John Templeton Foundation through the grant PS-GRAV/1401.
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Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Quantum Cosmology from Group Field Theory Condensates: a Review
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