Predictions of the Quantum Landscape Multiverse

TL;DR

This paper extends quantum cosmology methods to analyze concave inflationary potentials in the multiverse, predicting observable signatures from quantum entanglement effects that were previously inaccessible due to semiclassical approximation limitations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach by inverting the metric signature to handle concave potentials, broadening the quantum multiverse framework and its observational predictions.

Findings

Extended the theory to include concave potentials using Euclidean signature

Predicted observable signatures from quantum entanglement in inflationary models

Completed derivation of quantum modifications to Newtonian and inflationary potentials

Abstract

The 2015 Planck data release has placed tight constraints on the class of in ationary models allowed. The current best fit region favors concave downwards in ationary potentials, since they produce a suppressed tensor to scalar index ratio r. Concave downward potentials have a negative curvature V"<0, therefore a tachyonic mass square that drives fluctuations. Furthermore, their use can become problematic if the field rolls in a part of the potential away from the extrema, since the semiclassical approximation of quantum cosmology, used for deriving the most probable wavefunction of the universe from the landscape and for addressing the quantum to classical transition, breaks down away from the steepest descent region. We here propose a way of dealing with such potentials by inverting the metric signature and solving for the wavefunction of the universe in the Euclidean sector. This method allows us to extend our theory of the origin of the universe from a quantum multiverse, to a more general class of concave inflationary potentials where a straightforward application of the semiclassical approximation fails. The work here completes the derivation of modifications to the Newtonian potential and to the inflationary potential, which originate from the quantum entanglement of our universe with all others in the quantum landscape multiverse, leading to predictions of observational signatures for both types of in ationary models, concave and convex potentials.