Cosmological Perturbations Through a Simple Bounce
Cosmological Perturbations Through a Simple Bounce
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.70.063515
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发表时间:
2004-04
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5
通讯作者:
L. Allen;D. Wands
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作者:
L. Allen;D. Wands
We present a study of a simple scalar field model that yields non‐singular cosmological solutions. We study both the qualitative dynamics of the homogeneous and isotropic background and the evolution of inhomogeneous linear perturbations. We calculate the spectrum of perturbations generated on super‐Hubble scales during the collapse phase from initial vacuum fluctuations on small scales and then evolve these numerically through the bounce. We show that the comoving curvature perturbation calculated during the collapse phase provides a good estimate of the resulting large scale adiabatic perturbation in the expanding phase while the Bardeen metric potential is dominated by what becomes a decaying mode after the bounce. We show that a power‐law collapse phase with scale factor proportional to (−t)2/3 can yield a scale‐invariant spectrum of adiabatic scalar perturbations in the expanding phase, but the amplitude of tensor perturbations places important constraints on the allowed initial conditions.