Supersmoothing through slow contraction

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...

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Main Authors: William G. Cook, Iryna A. Glushchenko, Anna Ijjas, Frans Pretorius, Paul J. Steinhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320304937