Dynamical Solutions to the Horizon and Flatness Problems

Details Dynamical Solutions to the Horizon and Flatness Problems Dynamical Solutions to the Horizon and Flatness Problems

1993-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9302002v2

Phys.Rev.D49:3830-3836,1994

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.49.3830

We discuss in some detail the requirements on an early-Universe model that solves the horizon and flatness problems during the epoch of classical cosmology ($t\ge t_i\gg 10^{-43}\sec$). We show that a dynamical resolution of the horizon problem requires superluminal expansion (or very close to it) and that a truly satisfactory resolution of the flatness problem requires entropy production. This implies that a proposed class of adiabatic models in which the Planck mass varies by many orders of magnitude cannot fully resolve the flatness problem. Furthermore, we show that, subject to minimal assumptions, such models cannot solve the horizon problem either. Because superluminal expansion and entropy production are the two generic features of inflationary models, our results suggest that inflation, or something very similar, may be the only dynamical solution to the horizon and flatness problems.

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