Magnetic Anti-de Sitter Wormholes as seeds for Higgs Inflation

TL;DR

This paper proposes that magnetic Anti-de Sitter wormholes can trigger Higgs-driven inflation by acting as saddle points in a model combining General Relativity and the Standard Model, consistent with current Higgs and Top quark measurements.

Contribution

It introduces a novel mechanism where magnetic Anti-de Sitter wormholes catalyze Higgs inflation within a realistic theoretical framework.

Findings

Wormholes can serve as seeds for inflation in the Standard Model context.

The model's parameters align with observational bounds.

The Higgs potential turning negative at high energies is crucial for the scenario.

Abstract

We show how certain types of magnetic asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Euclidean wormholes can catalyze the onset of inflation. These wormholes can be embedded as saddle point solutions of General Relativity coupled to the Standard Model, the inflaton being identified with the Higgs particle. Our scenario is based on the assumption that the quantum effective potential for the Higgs turns negative at a certain high energy window, in line with current measured values for the Higgs and Top quark masses. Within our proposal, we can estimate various parameters and physical quantities of interest, in consistency with current observational bounds.