Tuesday 9 June 2015

What is cosmological hysteresis?

Last week there were two new papers on the arXiv discussing an effect dubbed �cosmological hysteresis,� which, so the authors argue, would make cyclic cosmological models viable alternatives to inflation

Arrow of time in dissipationless cosmology
Varun Sahni, Yuri Shtanov, Aleksey ToporenskyarXiv:1506.01247 [gr-qc]

Hysteresis in the Sky
Sayantan Choudhury, Shreya BanerjeearXiv:1506.02260 [


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