Supersmoothing through slow contraction

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135690zbMATH Open1473.83088arXiv2006.01172OpenAlexW3033945318WikidataQ130454814 ScholiaQ130454814MaRDI QIDQ822464FDOQ822464

Authors: William G. Cook, Iryna A. Glushchenko, Anna Ijjas, Frans Pretorius, P. J. Steinhardt 

Publication date: 22 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01172

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zbMATH Keywords

cyclic universebouncing cosmologycosmological bounceslow contraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Dimensional compactification in quantum field theory (81T33)

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