A radiation-filled Brans-Dicke universe can bounce without phantom fields for -3/2 < omega <= -4/3, but its perturbation spectrum is incompatible with observations.
Title resolution pending
1 Pith paper cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.
1
Pith paper citing it
fields
gr-qc 1years
2019 1verdicts
CONDITIONAL 1representative citing papers
citing papers explorer
-
Regular Bouncing Solutions, Energy Conditions and the Brans-Dicke Theory
A radiation-filled Brans-Dicke universe can bounce without phantom fields for -3/2 < omega <= -4/3, but its perturbation spectrum is incompatible with observations.