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arxiv: 1303.2372 · v2 · submitted 2013-03-10 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc· hep-ph· hep-th

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Towards Anisotropy-Free and Non-Singular Bounce Cosmology with Scale-invariant Perturbations

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keywords bouncecosmologyfieldfreegalileonnon-singularperturbationsscale-invariant
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We investigate non-singular bounce realizations in the framework of ghost-free generalized Galileon cosmology, which furthermore can be free of the anisotropy problem. Considering an Ekpyrotic-like potential we can obtain a total Equation-of-State (EoS) larger than one in the contracting phase, which is necessary for the evolution to be stable against small anisotropic fluctuations. Since such a large EoS forbids the Galileon field to generate the desired form of perturbations, we additionally introduce the curvaton field which can in general produce the observed nearly scale-invariant spectrum. In particular, we provide approximate analytical and exact semi-analytical expressions under which the bouncing scenario is consistent with observations. Finally, the combined Galileon-curvaton system is free of the Big-Rip after the bounce.

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