Cyclic cosmology and geodesic completeness

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/06/011MaRDI QIDQ5099327zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. H. Kinney, Nina K. Stein

Publication date 31 August 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15380

zbMATH Keywords

alternatives to inflationcosmic singularityinitial conditions and eternal universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: We consider recently proposed bouncing cosmological models for which the Hubble parameter is periodic in time, but the scale factor grows from one cycle to the next as a mechanism for shedding entropy. Since the scale factor for a flat universe is equivalent to an overall conformal factor, it has been argued that this growth corresponds to a physically irrelevant rescaling, and such bouncing universes can be made perfectly cyclic, extending infinitely into the past and future. We show that any bouncing universe which uses growth of the scale factor to dissipate entropy must necessarily be geodesically past-incomplete, and therefore cannot be truly cyclic in time.

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• On efforts to decouple early universe cosmology and quantum gravity phenomenology
• On the initial singularity and extendibility of flat quasi-de Sitter spacetimes

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