Effective Dynamics in Bianchi Type II Loop Quantum Cosmology

Details Effective Dynamics in Bianchi Type II Loop Quantum Cosmology Effective Dynamics in Bianchi Type II Loop Quantum Cosmology

2012-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/1201.4853v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

24 pages, 26 figures

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We numerically investigate the solutions to the effective equations of the Bianchi II model within the "improved" Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) dynamics. The matter source is a massless scalar field. We perform a systematic study of the space of solutions, and focus on the behavior of several geometrical observables. We show that the big-bang singularity is replaced by a bounce and the point-like singularities do not saturate the energy density bound. There are up to three directional bounces in the scale factors, one global bounce in the expansion, the shear presents up to four local maxima and can be zero at the bounce. This allows for solutions with density larger than the maximal density for the isotropic and Bianchi I cases. The asymptotic behavior is shown to behave like that of a Bianchi I model, and the effective solutions connect anisotropic solutions even when the shear is zero at the bounce. All known facts of Bianchi I are reproduced. In the "vacuum limit", solutions are such that almost all the dynamics is due to the anisotropies. Since Bianchi II plays an important role in the Bianchi IX model and the Belinskii, Khalatnikov, Lifshitz (BKL) conjecture, our results can provide an intuitive understanding of the behavior in the vicinity of general space-like singularities, when loop-geometric corrections are present.

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