Bouncing Unitary Cosmology II: Mini-Superspace Phenomenology
Abstract
A companion paper provides a proposal for cosmic singularity resolution based upon general features of a bouncing unitary cosmological model in the mini-superspace approximation. This paper analyses novel phenomenology that can be identified within particular solutions of that model. First, we justify our choice of particular solutions based upon a clearly articulated and observationally-motivated principle. Second, we demonstrate that the chosen solutions follow a classical mini-superspace cosmology before smoothly bouncing off the classically singular region. Third, and most significantly, we identify a `Rayleigh-scattering' limit for physically reasonable choices of parameters within which the solutions display effective behaviour that is insensitive to the details of rapidly oscillating Planck-scale physics. This effective physics is found to be compatible with an effective period of cosmic inflation well below the Planck scale. The detailed effective physics of this Rayleigh-scattering limit is provided via: i) an exact analytical treatment of the model in the de~Sitter limit; and ii) numerical solutions of the full model.
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@article{arxiv.1801.05826,
title = {Bouncing Unitary Cosmology II: Mini-Superspace Phenomenology},
author = {Sean Gryb and Karim P. Y. Thébault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05826},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Version published in Classical Quantum Gravity. 20 pages, 8 figures