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Solving the Cosmological Entropy Issue with a Higgs Dilaton

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-03-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Current cosmological models require the universe to be in a very smooth initial state before the onset of inflation, a situation to which Penrose ascribes a vanishingly small probability, leading to his proposal of a Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. We present an alternative paradigm, in which the Higgs plays the role of dilaton and resolves this problem by weakening gravity at very early times, thus providing a form of inflation that is compatible with observations and in which the inflaton is solidly related to tested particle physics.

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@article{arxiv.1810.06522,
  title  = {Solving the Cosmological Entropy Issue with a Higgs Dilaton},
  author = {David Sloan and George Ellis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06522},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure

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