Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/11/021
Keywords
cosmic singularity; cosmology of theories beyond the SM; alternatives to inflation
Funding
- Cosmology Initiative at Arizona State University
- DFG through TRR33
- Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) through Theiss Research [FQXi-MGB-1016]
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We present a wide class of models which realise a bounce in a spatially flat Friedmann universe in standard General Relativity. The key ingredient of the theories we consider is a noncanonical, minimally coupled scalar field belonging to the class of theories with Kinetic Gravity Braiding / Galileon-like self-couplings. In these models, the universe smoothly evolves from contraction to expansion, suffering neither from ghosts nor gradient instabilities around the turning point. The end-point of the evolution can be a standard radiation-domination era or an inflationary phase. We formulate necessary restrictions for Lagrangians needed to obtain a healthy bounce and illustrate our results with phase portraits for simple systems including the recently proposed Galilean Genesis scenario.
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