Starting the Universe: stable violation of the null energy condition and non-standard cosmologies
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Galileon fields have been used to construct monsters of the type discussed above, including loitering, inflationary and bouncing cosmologies [37,40-44] and other exotic cosmological solutions [45-47].
“Because of their ability to violate the NEC, Galileon fields have been used to construct monsters of the type discussed above, including loitering, inflationary and bouncing cosmologies [37,40 -44] and other exotic cosmological solutions [45 -47].”
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The paper’s cosmological discussion describes a ghost-condensate scalar model that violates the null energy condition and gives examples including expansion from an asymptotically Minkowski past and a controlled bounce. It also discusses an inflationary phase in a cyclic scenario. Our copy does not identify these constructions as using Galileon fields, so it supports the cosmological examples but not that field attribution. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- Authors
- Creminelli, P., Luty, M. A., Nicolis, A., & Senatore, L.
- Affiliations
- The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (IT)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2006-12-29
- Volume
- 2006
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 080-080
- ISSN
- 1029-8479 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2151126242
- Cited by
- 526
- References
- 34
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- FWCI
- 12.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of High Energy Physics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (publishedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0354401)
- U.S. Department of Energy (FC02-94ER40818, PHY-0354401, DF-FC02-94ER40818)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Keywords
- null energy condition violation, ghost condensate, shift symmetry breaking, effective field theory, cosmic expansion, initial singularity, horizon problem, alternative to inflation, dark energy, FRW cosmology, scalar fluctuations, bounce cosmology
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