Cyclic Cosmology and Geodesic Completeness

Autor:	Kinney, William H., Stein, Nina K.
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/1475-7516/2022/06/011
Popis:	We consider recently proposed bouncing cosmological models for which the Hubble parameter is periodic in time, but the scale factor grows from one cycle to the next as a mechanism for shedding entropy. Since the scale factor for a flat universe is equivalent to an overall conformal factor, it has been argued that this growth corresponds to a physically irrelevant rescaling, and such bouncing universes can be made perfectly cyclic, extending infinitely into the past and future. We show that any bouncing universe which uses growth of the scale factor to dissipate entropy must necessarily be geodesically past-incomplete, and therefore cannot be truly cyclic in time. Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures (V4: Version accepted by JCAP)
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15380 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv