General solution for scalar perturbations in bouncing cosmologies

Details General solution for scalar perturbations in bouncing cosmologies General solution for scalar perturbations in bouncing cosmologies

2005-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512066v1

JCAP0602:009,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

24 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2006/02/009

Bouncing cosmologies, suggested by String/M-theory, may provide an alternative to standard inflation to account for the origin of inhomogeneities in our universe. The fundamental question regards the correct way to evolve the scalar perturbations through the bounce. In this work, we determine the evolution of perturbations and the final spectrum for an arbitrary (spatially flat) bouncing cosmology, with the only assumption that the bounce is governed by a single physical scale. In particular, we find that the spectrum of the pre-bounce growing mode of the Bardeen potential (which is scale-invariant in some limit, and thus compatible with observations) survives unaltered in the post-bounce only if the comoving pressure perturbation is directly proportional to the Bardeen potential rather than its Laplacian, as for any known form of ordinary matter. If some new physics acting at the bounce justifies such relation, then bouncing cosmologies are entitled to become a real viable alternative for the generation of the observed inhomogeneities. Our treatment also includes some class of models with extra-dimensions, whereas we show that bounces induced by positive spatial curvature are structurally different from all bounces in spatially flat universes, requiring a distinct analysis.

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