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27 April 2025

Is Planckian Discreteness Observable in Cosmology?

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Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina
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Grupo de Cosmología, Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque S/N, La Plata 1900, Argentina
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Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires 1425, Argentina
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CNRS, Centre de Physique Théorique, Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, 13000 Marseille, France
This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2024—'Cosmology'

Abstract

A Planck scale inflationary era—in a quantum gravity theory predicting discreteness of quantum geometry at the fundamental scale—produces the scale-invariant spectrum of inhomogeneities with a very small tensor-to-scalar ratio of perturbations and a hot big bang leading to a natural dark matter genesis scenario. Here, we evoke the possibility that some of the major puzzles in cosmology would have an explanation rooted in quantum gravity.

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