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Perturbations in a non-singular bouncing Universe

M. Gasperini, M. Giovannini, G. Veneziano

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0306113

Abstract

We complement the low-energy gravi-dilaton effective action of string theory with a non-local, general-covariant dilaton potential, and obtain homogeneous solutions describing a non-singular (bouncing-curvature) cosmology. We then compute, both analytically and numerically, the spectrum of amplified scalar and tensor perturbations, and draw some general lessons on how to extract observable consequences from pre-big bang and ekpyrotic scenarios.

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