Speaker
Florian Kuhnel
(The Oskar Klein Centre, Sweden)
Description
In my talk, I will first introduce the corpuscular framework, recently proposed by Gia Dvali and Cesar Gomez, in which space-time is described in terms of graviton Bose-Einstein condensates.
Then I will present our recent quantitative investigations on this model regarding its cosmological implications, and will show how the cosmic microwave background power spectrum and the tensor-to-scalar ratio are affected.
The last part of my talk reviews the paradigm of eternal inflation in the light of the corpuscular picture of space-time. Incorporating the inflaton fluctuations including quantum depletion (which is intrinsic to the graviton Bose-Einstein condensate description), I will show that the fraction of the space-time which has an increasing potential is always below the eternal-inflation threshold. This proves that for monomial potentials eternal inflaton is excluded. This is likely to hold for other inflation models as well.
