Varying speed of light cosmology from a stringy short distance cutoff

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2001-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111479v1

Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 083505

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.65.083505

It is shown that varying speed of light cosmology follows from a string-inspired minimal length uncertainty relation. Due to the reduction of the available phase space volume per quantum mode at short wavelengths, the equation of state of ultrarelativistic particles stiffens at very high densities. This causes a stronger than usual deceleration of the scale factor which competes with a higher than usual propagation speed of the particles. Various measures for the effective propagation speed are analyzed: the group and phase velocity in the high energy tail, the thermal average of the group and phase velocity, and the speed of sound. Of these three groups, only the first provides a possible solution to the cosmological horizon problem.

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