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Propagating Cosmological Perturbations in a Bouncing Universe

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-09 v1

Abstract

Using the simplest model for a bouncing universe, namely that for which gravity is described by pure general relativity, the spatial sections are positively curved and the matter content is a single scalar field, we obtain the transition matrix relating cosmological perturbation modes between the contracting and expanding phases. We show that this case provides a specific example in which this relation explicitely depends on the perturbation scale whenever the null energy condition (NEC) is close to be violated.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402081,
  title  = {Propagating Cosmological Perturbations in a Bouncing Universe},
  author = {Patrick Peter and Jerome Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402081},
  year   = {2016}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Tenth Marcel Grossmann Proceedings

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