A Stringy Proposal Early Time Thefor Cosmological Cosmology: Slingshot
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Germani, NEG, Kehagias, hepth/0611246 Germani, NEG, Kehagias, arXiv:0706.0023 Germani, Ligouri, arXiv:0706.0025
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
The vacuum energy density is very small
4d metric
What do we know about the universe?
It is expanding
It is nearly isotropic
The space is almost flat
It is accelerating
The perturbations around homogeneity have a flat (slightly red) spectrum
WMAP collaboration astro-ph/0603449
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
The vacuum energy density is very small
It is expanding
4d metric
Einstein equations Hubble equation
Energy Curvature density term
The perturbations around homogeneity have a flat (slightly red) spectrum
It is nearly isotropic
The space is almost flat
It is accelerating
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
Solution 4d metric
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The vacuum energy density is very small
The space is almost flat
Hubble equation Big Bang
It is expanding
It is nearly isotropic
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It is accelerating
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
The vacuum energy density is very small
It is expanding
It is nearly isotropic
ρ is constant in the observable region of 1028 cm
The space is almost flat
Causally disconnected regions are in equilibrium! tPlank The perturbations around homogeneity have a flat (slightly red) spectrum
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It is accelerating
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
The vacuum energy density is very small
It is expanding
Belinsky, Khalatnikov, Lifshitz, Adv. Phys. 19, 525
It is nearly isotropic
Isotropic solutions form a subset of measure zero on the set of all Bianchi solutions Perturbations around isotropy dominate at early time, like a -6 , giving rise to chaotic behavior!
The perturbations around homogeneity have a flat (slightly red) spectrum
The space is almost flat
It is accelerating
Collins, Hawking Astr.Jour.180, (1973)
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
It is nearly isotropic
(10-8 at Nuc.) The space is almost flat
The vacuum energy density is very small It is a growing function It is expanding
Since it is small today, it was even smaller at earlier time!
The perturbations around homogeneity have a flat (slightly red) spectrum
It is accelerating
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
It is nearly isotropic What created perturbations?
The vacuum energy density is very small
It is expanding
If they were created by primordial quantum fluctuations, its resulting spectrum for normal matter is not flat Their existence is necessary for the formation of structure (clusters, galaxies)
The perturbations around homogeneity have a flat (slightly red) spectrum
The space is almost flat
It is accelerating
Guth, PRD 23, 347 (1981) Linde, PLB 108, 389 (1982)
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
It is nearly isotropic
Inflation Solving to the problems
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It is expanding
The space is almost flat
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The perturbations around homogeneity have a flat (slightly red) spectrum
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It is accelerating
Standard cosmology It is nearly homogeneous
It is nearly isotropic
Bounce
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It is expanding
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Slingshot cosmology
Germani, NEG, Kehagias hep-th/0611246
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What about Isotropy isotropy? problem is solved
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And about perturbations?
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Frozen modes survive up to late times Decaying modes do not survive
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The vacuum energy density is very small
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The perturbations around homogeneity have a flat spectrum
It is nearly isotropic
The space is almost flat
It is accelerating