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Cosmology with Mimetic Matter

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-12-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider minimal extensions of the recently proposed Mimetic Dark Matter and show that by introducing a potential for the mimetic non-dynamical scalar field we can mimic nearly any gravitational properties of the normal matter. In particular, the mimetic matter can provide us with inflaton, quintessence and even can lead to a bouncing nonsingular universe. We also investigate the behaviour of cosmological perturbations due to a mimetic matter. We demonstrate that simple mimetic inflation can produce red-tilted scalar perturbations which are largely enhanced over gravity waves.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3961,
  title  = {Cosmology with Mimetic Matter},
  author = {Ali H. Chamseddine and Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexander Vikman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3961},
  year   = {2014}
}

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19 pages

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