Speaker
Prof.
Brooks Thomas
(Lafayette College)
Description
Cosmological stasis is a phenomenon wherein the abundances of multiple cosmological energy components with different equations of state remain constant for an extended period despite the expansion of the universe. In this talk, I discuss the possible observational implications of this phenomenon. These include characteristic imprints in the stochastic gravitational-wave background and an enhanced growth of perturbations in the density of matter on small scales.
Authors
Prof.
Brooks Thomas
(Lafayette College)
Prof.
Keith R. Dienes
(University of Arizona)
Dr
Lucien Heurtier
(King’s College London)
Mr
Daniel Hoover
(Lafayette College)
Dr
Fei Huang
(Weizmann Institute)
Ms
Anna Paulsen
(Brown University)
Prof.
Timothy M. P. Tait
(University of California, Irvine)