Abstract
Several features of an theory in which there is a maximum value for the curvature are analyzed. The theory admits all the vacuum solutions of General Relativity, and also the radiation evolution for the scale factor of the standard cosmological model. Working in the Jordan frame, a complete analysis of the phase space is performed, and shown to be in agreement with examples obtained by numerical integration. In particular, nonsingular cosmological solutions were obtained, which after the bounce enter a phase of de Sitter expansion and subsequently relax to a GR-like radiation-dominated evolution.
- Received 17 May 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.103525
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