期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/104
关键词
alternatives to inflation; physics of the early universe; cosmic singularity; modified gravity
资金
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Perimeter Institute (PI)
- Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
The study explores the cosmological bounce model based on Cuscuton gravity and finds that scale-invariant entropy modes can be generated when the auxiliary field is kinetically coupled to the primary field. The Cuscuton bounce solution is free of singularities and does not require ad hoc matching conditions. Furthermore, the study shows that while tensor modes in Cuscuton bounce are stable, the produced spectrum is strongly blue and not observable.
It has been recently shown that a cosmological bounce model based on Cuscuton gravity does not have any ghosts or curvature instabilities. We explore whether Cuscuton bounce can provide an alternative to inflation for generating near scale-invariant scalar perturbations. While a single field Cuscuton bounce generically produces a strongly blue power spectrum (for a variety of initial/boundary conditions), we demonstrate that scale-invariant entropy modes can be generated in a spectator field that starts in adiabatic vacuum, and is kinetically coupled to the primary field. Furthermore, our solution has no singularity, nor requires an ad hoc matching condition. We also study the generation of tensor modes (or gravitational waves) in Cuscuton bounce and show that while they are stable, similar to other bounce models, the produced spectrum is strongly blue and unobservable.
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