26 citations · 35 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
2 papers
hep-th2014★ 26 cited
Instability of an emergent universe
Audrey T. Mithani, Alexander Vilenkin
Oscillating solutions to the effective equations of Loop Quantum Cosmology have been suggested for the role of an `eternal seed', providing a possible starting point for the emerge…
hep-th2012★ 9 cited
Did the universe have a beginning?
Audrey Mithani, Alexander Vilenkin
We discuss three candidate scenarios which seem to allow the possibility that the universe could have existed forever with no initial singularity: eternal infation, cyclic evolutio…