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Time Asymmetry of Cosmic Background Evolution in Loop Quantum Cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-07-03 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We discuss the asymmetry of cosmic background evolution in time with respect to the quantum bounce in the Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), employing the value of scalar field at the bounce ϕB\phi_{\rm B}. We use the Chaotic and the R2R^2 potentials to demonstrate that a possible deflation before the bounce may counteract the inflation that is needed for resolving the cosmological conundrums, so a certain level of time asymmetry is required for the models in LQC. This ϕB\phi_{\rm B} is model dependent and closely related to the amounts of deflation and inflation, so we may use observations to confine ϕB\phi_{\rm B} and thus the model parameters. With further studies this formalism should be useful in providing an observational testbed for the LQC models.

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@article{arxiv.1807.05659,
  title  = {Time Asymmetry of Cosmic Background Evolution in Loop Quantum Cosmology},
  author = {Wen-Hsuan Lucky Chang and Jiun-Huei Proty Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05659},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, with 7 figures and 4 tables

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