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The thermal non-Gaussianity in Near-Milne universe is investigated in this letter. Through classifying thermal fluctuations into two types, one characterized by a phase transition and the other without phase transition, we show that for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-31 Jian-Pin Wu , Yi Ling

We study the conditions under which thermal fluctuations generated in the contracting phase of a non-singular bouncing cosmology can lead to a scale-invariant spectrum of cosmological fluctuations at late times in the expanding phase. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-05 Yi-Fu Cai , Wei Xue , Robert Brandenberger , Xinmin Zhang

In this paper we investigate the power spectrum of thermal fluctuations in very early stage of viscous cosmology. When the state parameter as well as the viscous coefficient of a barotropic fluid is properly chosen, a scale invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-30 Wei-Jia Li , Yi Ling , Jian-Pin Wu , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We study a scenario for the very early universe in which there is a fast phase transition from a non-geometric, high temperature phase to a low temperature, geometric phase described by a classical solution to the Einstein equations. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joao Magueijo , Lee Smolin , Carlo R. Contaldi

We investigate the non-Gaussianity of primordial cosmological perturbations within our recently proposed holographic description of inflationary universes. We derive a holographic formula that determines the bispectrum of cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-16 Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

In holographic models of cosmology based on the (A)dS/CFT correspondence, conformal symmetry is implicit in the dual description of the Universe. Generically, however, one cannot expect the (broken) conformal invariance in the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Shinsuke Kawai , Yu Nakayama

Recently it has been shown that string gas cosmology, an alternative model of the very early universe which does not involve a period of cosmological inflation, can give rise to an almost scale invariant spectrum of metric perturbations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-05 Bin Chen , Yi Wang , Wei Xue , Robert Brandenberger

Cosmological perturbations due to statistical thermal fluctuations in a single fluid characterized by an arbitrary equation of state are computed. Formulas to predict the scalar and tensor perturbation spectra and nongaussianity parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Tirthabir Biswas , Robert Brandenberger , Tomi Koivisto , Anupam Mazumdar

We provide the gauge-invariant expression for large-scale cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations at second-order in perturbation theory. It enables to unambiguously define the nonlinearity parameter f_NL which is used by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Bartolo , S. Matarrese , A. Riotto

Gaussian cosmic microwave background skies are fully specified by the power spectrum. The conventional method of characterizing non-Gaussian skies is to evaluate higher order moments, the n-point functions and their Fourier transforms. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Pedro G. Ferreira , Joao Magueijo

We present the results of a set of cosmological N-body simulations with standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology but characterized by a scale-dependent primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type featuring a power-law dependence of the $f_{\rm…

Due to quantum fluctuations, spacetime is foamy on small scales. For maximum spatial resolution of the geometry of spacetime, the holographic model of spacetime foam stipulates that the uncertainty or fluctuation of distance $l$ is given,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michele Arzano , Thomas W. Kephart , Y. Jack Ng

Quantum gravitational effects in loop quantum cosmology lead to a resolution of the initial singularity and have the potential to solve the horizon problem and generate a quasi scale-invariant spectrum of density fluctuations. We consider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joao Magueijo , Parampreet Singh

I investigate non-Gaussian signatures in the context of tachyacoustic cosmology, that is, a noninflationary model with superluminal speed of sound. I calculate the full non-Gaussian amplitude $\mathcal{A}$, its size $f_{\rm NL}$, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Dennis Bessada

We investigate the noncommutative effect on the non-Gaussianities of primordial cosmological perturbation. In the lowest order of string length and slow-roll parameter, we find that in the models with small speed of sound the noncommutative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Kejie Fang , Bin Chen , Wei Xue

We investigate thermal inflation in double-screen entropic cosmology. We find that its realization is general, resulting from the system evolution from non-equilibrium to equilibrium. Furthermore, going beyond the background evolution, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-26 Yi-Fu Cai , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Primordial fluctuations in the cosmic density are usually assumed to take the form of a Gaussian random field that evolves under the action of gravitational instability. In the early stages, while they have low amplitude, the fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Watts , Peter Coles

We computed the power spectrum of weak cosmic shear in models with non-Gaussian primordial density fluctuations. Cosmological initial conditions deviating from Gaussianity have recently attracted much attention in the literature, especially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

We point out that a light scalar field fluctuating around a symmetry-enhaced point can generate large non-Gaussianity in density fluctuations. We name such a particle as an "ungaussiton", a scalar field dominantly produced by the quantum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Teruaki Suyama , Fuminobu Takahashi

In this paper, Gaussianity of eigenmodes and non-Gaussianity in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature fluctuations in two smallest compact hyperbolic (CH) models are investigated. First, it is numerically found that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Kaiki Taro Inoue
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