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Towards conformal cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-02-17 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Approximate de Sitter symmetry of inflating Universe is responsible for the approximate flatness of the power spectrum of scalar perturbations. However, this is not the only option. Another symmetry which can explain nearly scale-invariant power spectrum is conformal invariance. We give a short review of models based on conformal symmetry which lead to the scale-invariant spectrum of the scalar perturbations. We discuss also potentially observable features of these models.

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@article{arxiv.1508.07728,
  title  = {Towards conformal cosmology},
  author = {M. Libanov and V. Rubakov and G. Rubtsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07728},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Mini-review, prepared for JETP Letters; 11 pages, 3 figures

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