Ultralocality and slow contraction

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/06/013MaRDI QIDQ5028728zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anna Ijjas, Andrew P. Sullivan, Frans Pretorius, P. J. Steinhardt, William G. Cook

Publication date 10 February 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00584

zbMATH Keywords

alternatives to inflationcosmological simulationsgravityphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the detailed process by which slow contraction smooths and flattens the universe using an improved numerical relativity code that accepts initial conditions with non-perturbative deviations from homogeneity and isotropy along two independent spatial directions. Contrary to common descriptions of the early universe, we find that the geometry first rapidly converges to an inhomogeneous, spatially-curved and anisotropic ultralocal state in which all spatial gradient contributions to the equations of motion decrease as an exponential in time to negligible values. This is followed by a second stage in which the geometry converges to a homogeneous, spatially flat and isotropic spacetime. In particular, the decay appears to follow the same history whether the entire spacetime or only parts of it are smoothed by the end of slow contraction.

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