Implications of Planck2015 for inflationary, ekpyrotic and anamorphic bouncing cosmologies

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/4/044001zbMath1338.83214arXiv1512.09010OpenAlexW2256736110WikidataQ130454861 ScholiaQ130454861MaRDI QIDQ2807408

Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt

Publication date: 20 May 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The results from Planck2015, when combined with earlier observations from WMAP, ACT, SPT and other experiments, were the first observations to disfavor the "classic" inflationary paradigm. To satisfy the observational constraints, inflationary theorists have been forced to consider plateau-like inflaton potentials that introduce more parameters and more fine-tuning, problematic initial conditions, multiverse-unpredictability issues, and a new 'unlikeliness problem.' Some propose turning instead to a "postmodern" inflationary paradigm in which the cosmological properties in our observable universe are only locally valid and set randomly, with completely different properties (and perhaps even different physical laws) existing in most regions outside our horizon. By contrast, the new results are consistent with the simplest versions of ekpyrotic cyclic models in which the universe is smoothed and flattened during a period of slow contraction followed by a bounce, and another promising bouncing theory, anamorphic cosmology, has been proposed that can produce distinctive predictions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.09010

zbMATH Keywords

inflationanamorphic comologyekpyrotic cosmologyeternal inflation and multiversePlanck2015unlikelines problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) General questions in astronomy and astrophysics (85A04) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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