The robustness of slow contraction to cosmic initial conditions |
TYPE | Astrophysics Seminar |
Speaker: | Anna Ijjas |
Affiliation: | Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover |
Date: | 04.11.2020 |
Time: | 14:30 - 15:30 |
Location: | Lidow 620 |
Website: | https://panoptotech.cloud.panopt... |
Abstract: | I will discuss recent results from full-blown numerical relativity simulations of early-universe scenarios, demonstrating that slow contraction is a “supersmoothing” 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. |