Smoothing and flattening the universe through slow contraction versus inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2024/07/077zbMATH Open1546.8321MaRDI QIDQ6589402FDOQ6589402

Authors: Anna Ijjas, P. J. Steinhardt, David Garfinkle, William G. Cook 

Publication date: 19 August 2024

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

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationscalar fieldnumerical relativitycosmic singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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