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Study of a Class of Four Dimensional Nonsingular Cosmological Bounces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study a novel class of nonsingular time-symmetric cosmological bounces. In this class of four dimensional models the bounce is induced by a perfect fluid with a negative energy density. Metric perturbations are solved in an analytic way all through the bounce. The conditions for generating a scale invariant spectrum of tensor and scalar metric perturbations are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0307068,
  title  = {Study of a Class of Four Dimensional Nonsingular Cosmological Bounces},
  author = {Fabio Finelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0307068},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, 10 figures