Seminars and Journal Clubs
Fei Huang, "Cosmological Stasis and Its Phenomenological Implications"
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Europe/Brussels
Description
Cosmological stasis is a phenomenon in which multiple energy components with different equation-of-state parameters maintain constant abundances for an extended period despite the expansion of the universe. In this talk, I review how stasis arises and discuss the possible implications of this phenomenon in observations. These include characteristic imprints in the stochastic gravitational-wave background and the enhancement in the growth of matter density perturbations on small scales.