@article{21dba8750fed45c29d6914bc86d867eb,
title = "Supersmoothing through slow contraction",
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.",
keywords = "Bouncing cosmology, Cosmological bounce, Cyclic universe, Slow contraction",
author = "Cook, {William G.} and Glushchenko, {Iryna A.} and Anna Ijjas and Frans Pretorius and Steinhardt, {Paul J.}",
note = "Funding Information: W.G.C. is partially supported by the Simons Foundation grant number 654561 . The work of A.I. is supported by the Lise Meitner Excellence Program of the Max Planck Society and by the Simons Foundation grant number 663083 . F.P. acknowledges support from NSF grant PHY-1912171 , the Simons Foundation grant number 256111 , and The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) grant number FS20-056 . P.J.S. is supported in part by the DOE grant number DEFG02-91ER40671 and by the Simons Foundation grant number 654561 . A.I. thanks the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University for hospitality, where parts of this work were completed. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 The Author(s)",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135690",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "808",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}