Cosmological Perturbations in a Big Crunch/Big Bang Space-time
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- 12 June 2003
Abstract
A prescription is developed for matching general relativistic perturbations across singularities of the type encountered in the ekpyrotic and cyclic scenarios i.e. a collision between orbifold planes. We show that there exists a gauge in which the evolution of perturbations is locally identical to that in a model space-time (compactified Milne mod Z_2) where the matching of modes across the singularity can be treated using a prescription previously introduced by two of us. Using this approach, we show that long wavelength, scale-invariant, growing-mode perturbations in the incoming state pass through the collision and become scale-invariant growing-mode perturbations in the expanding hot big bang phase.Keywords
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- Version 1, 2003-06-12, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review D, 69 (10), 106005.
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