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Solving the cosmological entropy issue with a Higgs dilaton

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Article number063518
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>15/03/2019
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical Review D
Issue number6
Volume99
Number of pages12
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Current cosmological models require the universe to be in a very smooth initial state before the onset of inflation, a situation to which Penrose ascribes a vanishingly small probability, leading to his proposal of a conformal cyclic cosmology. We present an alternative paradigm, in which the Higgs plays the role of dilaton and resolves this problem by weakening gravity at very early times, thus providing a form of inflation that is compatible with observations and in which the inflaton is solidly related to tested particle physics.

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