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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| author | William G. Cook Iryna A. Glushchenko Anna Ijjas Frans Pretorius Paul J. Steinhardt |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-af3994ae239b48bebfbe623556a7faab2022-12-21T23:42:43ZengElsevierPhysics Letters B0370-26932020-09-01808135690Supersmoothing through slow contractionWilliam G. Cook0Iryna A. Glushchenko1Anna Ijjas2Frans Pretorius3Paul J. Steinhardt4Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, 07743 Jena, GermanyDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USAMax Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), 30167 Hannover, Germany; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, 30167 Hannover, GermanyDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USADepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; Corresponding author.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.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320304937Slow contractionCyclic universeCosmological bounceBouncing cosmology |
| spellingShingle | William G. Cook Iryna A. Glushchenko Anna Ijjas Frans Pretorius Paul J. Steinhardt Supersmoothing through slow contraction Physics Letters B Slow contraction Cyclic universe Cosmological bounce Bouncing cosmology |
| title | Supersmoothing through slow contraction |
| title_full | Supersmoothing through slow contraction |
| title_fullStr | Supersmoothing through slow contraction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Supersmoothing through slow contraction |
| title_short | Supersmoothing through slow contraction |
| title_sort | supersmoothing through slow contraction |
| topic | Slow contraction Cyclic universe Cosmological bounce Bouncing cosmology |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320304937 |
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