NEC violation in mimetic cosmology revisited

In the context of Einstein gravity, if the null energy condition (NEC) is satisfied, the energy density in expanding space–times always decreases while in contracting space–times the energy density grows and the universe eventually collapses into a singularity. In particular, no non-singular bounce...

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Main Authors: Anna Ijjas, Justin Ripley, Paul J. Steinhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-09-01
Series:Physics Letters B
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316303124