Generating cosmological perturbations in non-singular Horndeski cosmologies

Abstract

We construct a concrete model of Horndeski bounce with strong gravity in the past. Within this model we show that the correct spectra of cosmological perturbations may be generated at early contracting epoch, with mild fine-tuning ensuring that the scalar spectral tilt $n_S$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ are consistent with observations. The smallness of $r$ is governed by the smallness of the scalar sound speed. Arbitrarily small values of $r$ are forbidden in our setup because of the strong coupling in the past. Nevertheless, we show that it is possible to generate perturbations in a controllable way, i.e. in the regime where the background evolution and perturbations are legitimately described within classical field theory and weakly coupled quantum theory.

51 pages, 14 figures

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