Supersmoothing through slow contraction
Author(s): Cook, William G; Glushchenko, Iryna A; Ijjas, Anna; Pretorius, Frans; Steinhardt, Paul J.
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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr1kk94c3d| 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. |
| Publication Date: | 11-Aug-2020 |
| DOI: | doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135690 |
| ISSN: | 0370-2693 |
| Keywords: | slow contraction, cyclic universe, cosmological bounce, bouncing cosmology |
| Language: | en |
| Type of Material: | Journal Article |
| Journal/Proceeding Title: | Physics Letters B |
| Version: | Final published version. This is an open access article. |
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