Dec 1 – 5, 2025
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Oliver Janssen, Constraints on inflation from the gravitational path integral

Dec 3, 2025, 11:00 AM
15m
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Description

We will review a proposal for which complex geometries should be included as saddle points in the semiclassical evaluation of gravitational path integrals, including a new efficient algorithm to detect violating saddles. Then we will turn to the application of constraining inflation via the Hartle-Hawking wave function.

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