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Cosmic inflation in an extended non-commutative foliated quantum gravity: the wave function of the universe

César A. Zen Vasconcellos·Peter O. Hess·José de Freitas Pacheco·Fridolin Weber·Benno Bodmann·Dimiter Hadjimichef·Geovane Naysinger·Rodrigo Fraga·João G. G. Gimenez·Marcelo Netz-Marzola·Moisés Razeira
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We propose a novel extension to the recently developed non-commutative Riemannian foliated branch-cut quantum gravity (BCQG). Based on an extended Faddeev-Jackiw symplectic deformation of the conventional Poisson algebra, we investigate non-commutativity effects on a symplectic topological manifold that provides a natural isomorphic setting composed by a triad of canonically conjugate scalar complex fields which comprise quantum complementary dualities. Based on a complementary analytically continued Friedmann-type equation, combined with a quantum approach based on the Ho\v{r}awa-Lifshitz quantum gravity, we describe the dynamic evolution of the universe's wave function, unfolding unprecedented predictions for the cosmic evolution and inflation. The non-commutative foliated quantum gravity approach offers a new perspective on explaining the accelerated cosmic expansion of the universe, strongly suggesting that non-commutative algebra induces the late accelerated growth of both the universe's wave function and the corresponding scale factor, along with their quantum counterparts. In contrast to the conventional inflationary model, where inflation requires a remarkably fine-tuned set of initial conditions in a patch of the universe, non-commutative foliated quantum gravity, analytically continued to the complex plane, captures short and long scales of spacetime, leading to an evolutionary cosmic dynamic through a topological reconfiguration of the primordial cosmic matter and energy content. This result introduces new speculative framework elements regarding the reconfiguration of matter and energy due to an underlying non-commutative spatio-temporal structure as a driver of spacetime cosmic acceleration.

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César A. Zen Vasconcellos, Peter O. Hess, José de Freitas Pacheco, Fridolin Weber, Benno Bodmann, Dimiter Hadjimichef, Geovane Naysinger, Rodrigo Fraga, João G. G. Gimenez, Marcelo Netz-Marzola, Moisés Razeira. 2024-11-14. Cosmic inflation in an extended non-commutative foliated quantum gravity: the wave function of the universe. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09756

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