Horizon-preserving dualities and perturbations in non-canonical scalar field cosmologies
Horizon-preserving dualities and perturbations in non-canonical scalar field cosmologies
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非正则标量场宇宙学中的视界保持对偶性和扰动
DOI:
10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/015
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
A. M. Dizgah
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作者:
G. Geshnizjani;W. Kinney;A. M. Dizgah
We generalize the cosmological duality between inflation and cyclic contraction under the interchange a↔H to the case of non-canonical scalar field theories with varying speed of sound. The single duality in the canonical case generalizes to a family of three dualities constructed to leave the cosmological acoustic horizon invariant. We find three classes of models: (I) DBI inflation, (II) the non-canonical generalization of cyclic contraction, and (III) a new cosmological solution with rapidly decreasing speed of sound and relatively slowly growing scale factor, which we dub stalled cosmology. We construct dual analogs to the inflationary slow roll approximation, and solve for the curvature perturbation in all three cases. Both cyclic contraction and stalled cosmology predict a strongly blue spectrum for the curvature perturbations inconsistent with observations.