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hep-th2011★ 109 cited
Antigravity and the big crunch/big bang transition
Itzhak Bars, Shih-Hung Chen, Paul J. Steinhardt +1
We point out a new phenomenon which seems to be generic in 4d effective theories of scalar fields coupled to Einstein gravity, when applied to cosmology. A lift of such theories to…
hep-th2011★ 53 cited
Geodesically Complete Analytic Solutions for a Cyclic Universe
Itzhak Bars, Shih-Hung Chen, Neil Turok
We present analytic solutions to a class of cosmological models described by a canonical scalar field minimally coupled to gravity and experiencing self interactions through a hype…