Supersmoothing through slow contraction

William G. Cook; Iryna A. Glushchenko; Anna Ijjas; Frans Pretorius; Paul J. Steinhardt

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135690

Supersmoothing through slow contraction

William G. Cook, Iryna A. Glushchenko, Anna Ijjas, Frans Pretorius, Paul J. Steinhardt

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Abstract

Performing a fully non-perturbative analysis using the tools of numerical general relativity, we demonstrate that a period of slow contraction is a “supersmoothing” cosmological phase that homogenizes, isotropizes and flattens the universe both classically and quantum mechanically and can do so far more robustly and rapidly than had been realized in earlier studies.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	135690
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	808
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135690
State	Published - Sep 10 2020

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Keywords

Bouncing cosmology
Cosmological bounce
Cyclic universe
Slow contraction

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