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绝热热解:收缩宇宙中单个标量场的标度不变曲率扰动

Adiabatic Ekpyrosis: Scale-Invariant Curvature Perturbations from a Single Scalar Field in a Contracting Universe

Justin Khoury, Paul J. Steinhardt

摘要:

宇宙可以通过经历超慢(ekpyrotic)收缩的阶段变得平坦和光滑,这是一个单一的正则标量场和传统的广义相对论可以实现的条件。然而,有人认为,产生标度不变的密度扰动,需要至少两个标量场和一个两步过程,首先产生熵波动,然后将它们转化为曲率扰动。在本文中,我们确定了一个漏洞的论点,并介绍了一个ekpyrotic模型的基础上,一个单一的,规范的标量场,产生近尺度不变的曲率波动,通过一个纯粹的“绝热机制”,其中的背景演变是一个动态吸引子。由此产生的光谱可以是略带红色的,具有独特的非高斯波动。

英文摘要:

The universe can be made flat and smooth by undergoing a phase of ultra-slow (ekpyrotic) contraction, a condition achievable with a single, canonical scalar field and conventional general relativity. It has been argued, though, that generating scale-invariant density perturbations, requires at least two scalar fields and a two-step process that first produces entropy fluctuations and then converts them to curvature perturbations. In this paper, we identify a loophole in the argument and introduce an ekpyrotic model based on a single, canonical scalar field that generates nearly scale-invariant curvature fluctuations through a purely "adiabatic mechanism" in which the background evolution is a dynamical attractor. The resulting spectrum can be slightly red with distinctive non-gaussian fluctuations.

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