The robustness of slow contraction to cosmic initial conditions

by Anna Ijjas

Tuesday 24 Nov 2020, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Brussels

I will discuss recent results from full-blown numerical relativity simulations of early-universe scenarios, demonstrating that slow contraction is a super-smoothing cosmological phase that homogenizes, isotropizes and flattens the universe and can do so far more robustly and rapidly than had been realized in earlier studies.

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