Smoothing and flattening the universe through slow contraction versus inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2024/07/077MaRDI QIDQ6589402zbMATH OpenFDO

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)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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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