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Dual Inflation and Bounce Cosmologies Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-06-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We explore a dual scenario of generalized inflation and bounce cosmologies, producing a scale-invariant curvature perturbation spectrum. Bayesian analysis with pulsar timing array data identifies, for the first time, viable regions from inflation and bounce that simultaneously explain stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) signals and CMB anisotropies. Bayes factor calculations strongly favor this dual scenario over conventional sources and provide initial evidence of a duality between inflation and bounce regarding SGWB, offering new insights for early universe model-building and future observations.

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@article{arxiv.2405.15889,
  title  = {Dual Inflation and Bounce Cosmologies Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Data},
  author = {Changhong Li and Junrong Lai and Jinjie Xiang and Chaofan Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15889},
  year   = {2024}
}

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29 pages, 6 figures