Creation of an inflationary epoch from an Emergent Universe through quantum tunneling

[2608.27597] Creation of an inflationary epoch from an Emergent Universe through quantum tunneling Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology arXiv:2608.27597 (gr-qc) [Submitted on 27 Aug 2026] Title: Creation of an inflationary epoch from an Emergent Universe through quantum tunneling Authors: Eduardo I. Guendelman , Ramon Herrera , Pedro Labraña View PDF Abstract: We consider that the very early Universe was well described by an Emergent Universe, whose geometry was that of a static and classically stable Einstein Universe, which is possible in certain Two Measures Theories (TMT). These solutions do not have a big bang, but rather they extend to arbitrarily early times. The TMT we consider are theories with spontaneously broken scale invariance and contain a dilaton field, crucial for the implementation of the scale invariance, that after the symmetry breaking acquires a nontrivial effective potential, which we study in the Einstein frame. Using the conserved quantity associated with the dilaton, we recast the cosmological evolution in terms of an effective potential $V(\dot{\phi})$, which exhibits a divergent barrier separating the static solution from the subsequent expanding evolution. Quantizing the corresponding minisuperspace Hamiltonian, we evaluate the tunneling probability in the WKB approximation. The tunneling action is well defined and finite once the branch of the square root is fixed by requiring a consistent semiclassical interpretation of the tunneling probability. We find that the barrier gives rise to a logarithmic contribution to the tunneling exponent, yielding a power-law rather than the usual exponential dependence of the tunneling probability, which for the parameter values considered is close to unity. The Universe thus emerges with a finite scale factor into a superinflationary phase that develops into slow-roll inflation. This quantum creation of an inflationary Universe does not represent a quantum creation of spacetime, which exists before the tunneling. Comments: 23 pages, 4 Figures Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ; Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) Cite as: arXiv:2608.27597 [gr-qc] (or arXiv:2608.27597v1 [gr-qc] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.27597 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Ramon Herrera [ view email ] [v1] Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:29:21 UTC (113 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF TeX Source view license Current browse context: gr-qc < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: astro-ph astro-ph.CO hep-th References & Citations INSPIRE HEP SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender ( What is IArxiv? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab)

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