TY - JOUR
T1 - A new kind of cyclic universe
AU - Ijjas, Anna
AU - Steinhardt, Paul J.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank J. Miralda-Escude, J. Ostriker. L. Page, J. Peebles and J. Simons for useful comments. A.I. is supported by the Simons Foundation ‘Origins of the Universe Initiative’ grant number 550202 . The work of P.J.S. is supported by the DOE grant number DEFG02-91ER40671 and by the Simons Foundation grant number 548512 .
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PY - 2019/8/10
Y1 - 2019/8/10
N2 - Combining intervals of ekpyrotic (ultra-slow) contraction with a (non-singular) classical bounce naturally leads to a novel cyclic theory of the universe in which the Hubble parameter, energy density and temperature oscillate periodically, but the scale factor grows by an exponential factor from one cycle to the next. The resulting cosmology not only resolves the homogeneity, isotropy, flatness and monopole problems and generates a nearly scale invariant spectrum of density perturbations, but it also addresses a number of age-old cosmological issues that big bang inflationary cosmology does not. There may also be wider-ranging implications for fundamental physics, black holes and quantum measurement.
AB - Combining intervals of ekpyrotic (ultra-slow) contraction with a (non-singular) classical bounce naturally leads to a novel cyclic theory of the universe in which the Hubble parameter, energy density and temperature oscillate periodically, but the scale factor grows by an exponential factor from one cycle to the next. The resulting cosmology not only resolves the homogeneity, isotropy, flatness and monopole problems and generates a nearly scale invariant spectrum of density perturbations, but it also addresses a number of age-old cosmological issues that big bang inflationary cosmology does not. There may also be wider-ranging implications for fundamental physics, black holes and quantum measurement.
KW - Cosmological bounce
KW - Cyclic universe
KW - Ekpyrotic contraction
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.06.056
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.06.056
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068573076
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 795
SP - 666
EP - 672
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -