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From Big Bang to Asymptotic de Sitter: Complete Cosmologies in a Quantum Gravity Framework
Using the Einstein-Hilbert approximation of asymptotically safe quantum
gravity we present a consistent renormalization group based framework for the
inclusion of quantum gravitational effects into the cosmological field
equations. Relating the renormalization group scale to cosmological time via a
dynamical cutoff identification this framework applies to all stages of the
cosmological evolution. The very early universe is found to contain a period of
``oscillatory inflation'' with an infinite sequence of time intervals during
which the expansion alternates between acceleration and deceleration. For
asymptotically late times we identify a mechanism which prevents the universe
from leaving the domain of validity of the Einstein-Hilbert approximation and
obtain a classical de Sitter era.Comment: 47 pages, 17 figure