FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg – Physics Advanced

Eigenstates of the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant for de Sitter and quasi-de Sitter universes

Max J. Fahn; Supervised by Michael Kobler, Prof. Dr. Kristina Giesel,
Keywords: Cosmology, Inflation, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Theory Project

Abstract Motivated from considerations in theoretical cosmology about fluctuations in the very early universe, the aim of the project was to investigate the spectrum of the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant, an invariant of the time-dependent harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian, and to analyse the behaviour o...