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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie
GR 9: Quantum Cosmology
GR 9.4: Talk
Thursday, March 3, 2016, 09:30–09:50, VMP6 HS A
Cosmology of Born-Infeld type models — Alexander Kamenshchik1,2, Claus Kiefer3, and •Nick Kwidzinski3 — 1Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna and INFN, Bologna, Italy — 2L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia — 3Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
We discuss the classical and quantum cosmology of a universe filled with a tachyon condensate and other Born-Infeld type fields. We analyse, in particular, the cases with a constant potential and with an inverse square potential. We apply the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of canonical quantum gravity to these models and show how it can be appropriately reformulated as a difference equation.