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Bouncing Cosmologies: Progress and Problems

Authors :
Brandenberger, Robert
Peter, Patrick
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

We review the status of bouncing cosmologies as alternatives to cosmological inflation for providing a description of the very early universe, and a source for the cosmological perturbations which are observed today. We focus on the motivation for considering bouncing cosmologies, the origin of fluctuations in these models, and the challenges which various implementations face.<br />Comment: 30 pages, 6 figures; references added

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1603.05834
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-016-0057-0