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Primordial perturbations with pre-inflationary bounce

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-06-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Based on the effective field theory (EFT) of nonsingular cosmologies, we build a stable model, without the ghost and gradient instabilities, of bounce inflation (inflation is preceded by a cosmological bounce). We perform a full simulation for the evolution of scalar perturbation, and find that the perturbation spectrum has a large-scale suppression (as expected), which is consistent with the power deficit of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) TT-spectrum at low multipoles, but unexpectedly, it also shows itself one marked lower valley, which actually provides a better fit to the dip at multipole l20l\sim 20. The depth of valley is relevant with the physics around the bounce scale, which is model-dependent.

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@article{arxiv.1709.07464,
  title  = {Primordial perturbations with pre-inflationary bounce},
  author = {Yong Cai and Yu-Tong Wang and Jin-Yun Zhao and Yun-Song Piao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07464},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

23 pages, 19 figures;

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