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hep-th2008★ 26 cited
Cyclic Inflation
Tirthabir Biswas, Stephon Alexander
We present an inflationary model that is geodesically complete and does not suffer from the transplanckian problem. In most inflationary models, massless (conformal) scalar field f…
hep-th2008★ 47 cited
The cosmological BCS mechanism and the Big Bang Singularity
Stephon Alexander, Tirthabir Biswas
We provide a novel mechanism that resolves the Big Bang Singularity present in FRW space-times without the need for ghost fields. Building on the fact that a four-fermion interacti…
hep-th2008★ 8 cited
Emergence of a Cyclic Universe from the Hagedorn Soup
Tirthabir Biswas
One of the challenges of constructing a successful cyclic universe scenario is to be able to incorporate the second law of thermodynamics which typically leads to Tolman's problem…