"Alpha-vacua and Inflation"

Lecture Index

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Title Slide 00:00:00
Plan 00:00:26
Monopole Problem 00:01:29
CMBR Fluctuations 00:02:47
Original Calculations 00:03:14
Demanding 00:04:13
alpha-vacua 00:05:16
Choose conformal metric 00:07:54
General class obtained 00:09:09
End of inflation 00:11:16
Cutoff alpha-vacuum 00:14:14
Useful model for change 00:15:07
Back-reaction problem solved 00:16:22
Expect trans-planckian physics 00:22:49
Cosmic Ray Bounds 00:27:41
Expect to see background 00:29:30
Diffuse background of gammas up to 100 GeV 00:30:24
Assumption of Starobinsky 00:31:18
Very high energy cosmic rays 00:33:07
Physical Consistency 00:36:29
Pure de Sitter space 00:37:33
Fock space not unitary 00:42:45
Two-index notation 00:44:13
Fock space not unitary 00:44:33
Two-index notation 00:46:37
Reduces to Euclidean vacuum 00:49:22
Nonlocal terms 00:51:52
Real time correlators 00:54:19
Kallen-Lehmann 00:56:49
Real time correlators 00:56:55
Kallen-Lehmann 00:57:36
Conclusions 00:59:43