Towards a Cosmological Dual to Inflation

Details Towards a Cosmological Dual to Inflation Towards a Cosmological Dual to Inflation

2010-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/1012.0846v2

Phys.Rev.D84:023511,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

7 pages, 1 figure. v2: Included section reviewing non-gaussianity calculation, added references

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.023511

We derive all single-field cosmologies with unit sound speed that generate scale invariant curvature perturbations on a dynamical attractor background. We identify three distinct phases: slow-roll inflation; a slowly contracting adiabatic ekpyrotic phase, described by a rapidly-varying equation of state; and a novel adiabatic ekpyrotic phase on a slowly expanding background. All of these yield identical power spectra. The degeneracy is broken at the 3-point level: unlike the nearly gaussian spectrum of slow-roll inflation, adiabatic ekpyrosis predicts large non-gaussianities on small scales.

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