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Before the Bang: Wormholes at the Dawn of the Universe

  • Panos Betzios
  • Paul Ghiringhelli
  • Ioannis D. Gialamas
  • Olga Papadoulaki
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Abstract

This essay discusses recent progress on Euclidean wormholes as candidate contributions to the Universe's initial quantum state. The comparison with the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal highlights both a conceptual affinity and genuine advance: wormholes retain the relevance of Euclidean-saddles as encoders of properties of cosmological wavefunctions, while they broaden the class of regular saddles that are physically relevant for inflating universes and are capable of resolving issues that plague the no-boundary proposal. The principal achievement of the wormhole program is to enlarge the semiclassical initial-condition land-scape in a way that is physically rich, conforms with Holographic expectations and as such becomes increasingly relevant for early-universe model building, within UV complete theories of quantum gravity.

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@misc{betzios2026before,
  title = {{Before the Bang: Wormholes at the Dawn of the Universe}},
  author = {Panos Betzios and Paul Ghiringhelli and Ioannis D. Gialamas and Olga Papadoulaki},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.13777},
  eprint = {2605.13777},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13777},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Before the Bang: Wormholes at the Dawn of the Universe
AU  - Panos Betzios
AU  - Paul Ghiringhelli
AU  - Ioannis D. Gialamas
AU  - Olga Papadoulaki
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/05/15
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13777
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13777
AB  - This essay discusses recent progress on Euclidean wormholes as candidate contributions to the Universe's initial quantum state. The comparison with the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal highlights both a conceptual affinity and genuine advance: wormholes retain the relevance of Euclidean-saddles as encoders of properties of cosmological wavefunctions, while they broaden the class of regular saddles that are physically relevant for inflating universes and are capable of resolving issues that plague the no-boundary proposal. The principal achievement of the wormhole program is to enlarge the semiclassical initial-condition land-scape in a way that is physically rich, conforms with Holographic expectations and as such becomes increasingly relevant for early-universe model building, within UV complete theories of quantum gravity.
ER  -