Bounce from inflation

We construct a class of viable bouncing models that are conformally related to cosmological inflation. There are three main difficulties in constructing such a model: (i) A stable (attractor) solution, (ii) A non-singular bounce, and (iii) to bypass the no-go theorem that states that simultaneously...

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Main Author: Debottam Nandi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320304986
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Summary:We construct a class of viable bouncing models that are conformally related to cosmological inflation. There are three main difficulties in constructing such a model: (i) A stable (attractor) solution, (ii) A non-singular bounce, and (iii) to bypass the no-go theorem that states that simultaneously maintaining the observational bounds on the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the non-Gaussian scalar spectrum are not possible. We show that a non-minimal coupling of the scalar field helps to bypass these difficulties and provides a viable bouncing model with a naturally occurring reheating epoch briefly after the bouncing phase.
ISSN:0370-2693