Chronometric cosmology and fundamental fermions

Early Cosmology and Fundamental Physics

Effective action and decoherence by fermions in quantum cosmology

We develop the formalism for the one-loop no-boundary state in a cosmological model with fermions. We use it to calculate the reduced density matrix for an inflaton field by tracing out the fermionic degrees of freedom, yielding both the fermionic effective action and the standard decoherence factor. We show that dimensional regularisation of ultraviolet divergences would lead to an inconsisten...

Tunneling Phenomena in Cosmology: Some Fundamental Problems

The fundamental problem of how tunneling in thermal medium is completed is addressed, and a new time scale of order 1/friction for its termination, which is usually much shorter than the Hubble time, is pointed out. Enhanced non-linear resonance is responsible for this short time scale. This phenomenon occurs when the semiclassical periodic motion in a metastable potential well resonates with o...

Superspace without torsion and the composite fundamental fermions

(N=2)-superspace without torsion is described, which is equivalent to an 8-space with a discrete internal subspace. A number and a character of ties determine now an internal symmetry group, while in the supersymmetrical models this one is determined by an extension degree N. Such a model can be constructed for no less than 4 generations of the two-component fundamental fermions. Analogues of t...

(1+1)-dimensional QCD with fundamental bosons and fermions.

We analyze the properties of mesons in 1+1 dimensional QCD with bosonic and fermionic “quarks” in the large Nc limit. We study the spectrum in detail and show that it is impossible to obtain massless mesons including boson constituents in this model. We quantitatively show how the QCD mass inequality is realized in two dimensional QCD. We find that the mass inequality is close to being an equal...