Breaking Eternal Inflation: Empirical Viability of a Spontaneous Collapse Scenario
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| author | Piccirilli, María Pía León, Gabriel Lechuga-Solis, Rosa-Laura Sudarsky, Daniel |
| author_facet | Piccirilli, María Pía León, Gabriel Lechuga-Solis, Rosa-Laura Sudarsky, Daniel |
| contents | We revisit an inflationary scenario in which primordial inhomogeneities arise from a quantum collapse, a stochastic mechanism described in the context of quantum collapse theories in its continuous version and within semiclassical gravity. The predictions of the model show a non-conventional scalar spectrum governed by two new parameters in the collapse rate, whose aim is twofold: on one side, to account for the primordial cosmic structure, and on the other to explain the suppression amplitude associated with long-wavelength modes, thereby eliminating the occurrence of eternal inflation. Furthermore, this model can contribute to accounting for the lack of power anomaly in the low $l$ angular power spectra of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Using the latest data from the Planck (2018) collaboration, we establish observational constraints on the model parameters, which produce a characteristic low-$\ell$ suppression in the cosmic microwave background spectrum. We conclude that the Planck data support the solution presented in the previous works, in other words, that the model allows us to solve simultaneously the emergence of the cosmic structure and, at the same time, avoid the eternal inflation scenario. |
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| spellingShingle | Breaking Eternal Inflation: Empirical Viability of a Spontaneous Collapse Scenario Piccirilli, María Pía León, Gabriel Lechuga-Solis, Rosa-Laura Sudarsky, Daniel General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics We revisit an inflationary scenario in which primordial inhomogeneities arise from a quantum collapse, a stochastic mechanism described in the context of quantum collapse theories in its continuous version and within semiclassical gravity. The predictions of the model show a non-conventional scalar spectrum governed by two new parameters in the collapse rate, whose aim is twofold: on one side, to account for the primordial cosmic structure, and on the other to explain the suppression amplitude associated with long-wavelength modes, thereby eliminating the occurrence of eternal inflation. Furthermore, this model can contribute to accounting for the lack of power anomaly in the low $l$ angular power spectra of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Using the latest data from the Planck (2018) collaboration, we establish observational constraints on the model parameters, which produce a characteristic low-$\ell$ suppression in the cosmic microwave background spectrum. We conclude that the Planck data support the solution presented in the previous works, in other words, that the model allows us to solve simultaneously the emergence of the cosmic structure and, at the same time, avoid the eternal inflation scenario. |
| title | Breaking Eternal Inflation: Empirical Viability of a Spontaneous Collapse Scenario |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26378 |