On classical and quantum dynamics of tachyon-like fields and their cosmological implications
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Niš (Serbia)
- Faculty of Physics, West University of Timisoara (Romania)
We consider a class of tachyon-like potentials, motivated by string theory, D-brane dynamics and inflation theory in the context of classical and quantum mechanics. A formalism for describing dynamics of tachyon fields in spatially homogenous and one-dimensional - classical and quantum mechanical limit is proposed. A few models with concrete potentials are considered. Additionally, possibilities for p-adic and adelic generalization of these models are discussed. Classical actions and corresponding quantum propagators, in the Feynman path integral approach, are calculated in a form invariant on a change of the background number fields, i.e. on both archimedean and nonarchimedean spaces. Looking for a quantum origin of inflation, relevance of p-adic and adelic generalizations are briefly discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 22390745
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1634, Issue 1; Conference: TIM-13 Physics Conference, Timisoara (Romania), 21-24 Nov 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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