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Brandenberger, Robert; Peter, Patrick

Bouncing cosmologies: progress and problems. (English) Zbl 1372.83002

Found. Phys. 47, No. 6, 797-850 (2017).
Summary: We review the status of bouncing cosmologies as alternatives to cosmological inflation for providing a description of the very early universe, and a source for the cosmological perturbations which are observed today. We focus on the motivation for considering bouncing cosmologies, the origin of fluctuations in these models, and the challenges which various implementations face.

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MSC:

83-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory
83F05 Relativistic cosmology
83C75 Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc.
83C25 Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory
83D05 Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein’s, including asymmetric field theories
85A40 Astrophysical cosmology
83E30 String and superstring theories in gravitational theory

Keywords:

bouncing cosmologies; cosmological inflation; very early universe; cosmological perturbations
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