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Kurt Hinterbichler

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Preprint Sep 2026

Breaking de Sitter Symmetry with Cosmic Topology: Cosmological Role of Infrared Vacuum Freedom

When spatial sections of spacetime are topologically nontrivial, the symmetry arguments usually used to choose the Bunch-Davies vacuum are no longer guaranteed to apply. We study this problem for a scalar field on de Sitter spacetime with toroidal spatial sections. The Hadamard conditions, which ensure the same short-d...

A. Negro, Kurt Hinterbichler, G. Starkman et al. · 2 citations

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