Obstacles and results: From QC to SQC

Abstract

SQC SQC!research routes SQC!QC objectives Some of the research routes in supersymmetric quantum cosmology (SQC) are imported from the objectives and subsequent results within purely bosonic quantum cosmology (QC). More precisely, the overall aim for SQC has been (and still is) to employ a more fundamental framework, richer both in content as well as assumptions, where the structure of purely bosonic quantum cosmology fits consistently as a limiting situation. SQC will constitute a vaster, more adequate, and more elegant perspective for the very early universe. Let us point here to the 'essentials' in the QC programme, then to the relevant features of SUGRA. Afterwards we summarize the progress subsequently achieved in SQC. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.