Alternatives to Cosmological Inflation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-13 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The inflationary paradigm, although very successful phenomenologically, suffers from several conceptual problems which motivate the search for alternative scenarios of early universe cosmology. Here, two possible alternatives will be reviewed. - "string gas cosmology" and the "matter bounce". Their successes and problems will be pointed out.
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@article{arxiv.0902.4731,
title = {Alternatives to Cosmological Inflation},
author = {Robert H. Brandenberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4731},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
14 pages, 5 figures, to be published in the proceedings of CosPA08