Supersmoothing through Slow Contraction
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-08-19 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Performing a fully non-perturbative analysis using the tools of numerical general relativity, we demonstrate that a period of slow contraction is a `supersmoothing' cosmological phase that homogenizes, isotropizes and flattens the universe both classically and quantum mechanically and can do so far more robustly and rapidly than had been realized in earlier studies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.01172,
title = {Supersmoothing through Slow Contraction},
author = {William G. Cook and Iryna A. Glushchenko and Anna Ijjas and Frans Pretorius and Paul J. Steinhardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01172},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures