Ekpyrosis in Quantum Gravitational Anisotropic Bouncing Models
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Abstract
We explore the isotropization of a model anisotropic universe in the bouncing models using the ekpyrotic potential without assuming initial conditions corresponding to an ekpyrotic phase. In particular, we explore the way the use of ekpyrotic potentials may dynamically help isotropization for the considered initial conditions corresponding to the macroscopic classical contracting universe with potentially large anisotropies. As an example of a concrete nonsingular bouncing mechanism, we consider the effective description of loop quantum cosmology for Bianchi-I and Bianchi-IX spacetimes for ekpyrotic and ekpyrotic-like potentials. Considering two different values of potential parameters and initial conditions corresponding to a classical macroscopic universe, we show that for both of these spacetimes, the cosmological singularity is resolved via multiple short-duration nonsingular bounces caused by quantum gravitational effects. We perform a large number of numerical simulations for a wide range of initial conditions which do not favor ekpyrosis initially. Even with such unfavorable initial conditions, we show that the relative strength of the anisotropies at the end of the bounce regime is noticeably reduced in more than 90% of the simulations. This provides a strong evidence for the isotropization ability of the ekpyrotic potentials. We find that isotropization can occur over cycles of rapid nonsingular bounces in the Planck regime via enhancement of the contribution of the (isotropic) energy density relative to the anisotropies at the bounces. Achieving isotropization is found to be easier in Bianchi-I spacetimes when compared to Bianchi-IX spacetimes. Our results demonstrate that, even with initial conditions which are not most favorable for the existence of ekpyrosis, an effective isotropization can occur in nonsingular anisotropic models with ekpyrotic and ekpyrotic-like potentials.
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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