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Sergio E. Joras

Publications and source records attributed to Sergio E. Joras.

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arXiv2009

Viable Singularity-Free f(R) Gravity Without a Cosmological Constant

Several authors have argued that self-consistent $f(R)$ gravity models distinct from $Λ$CDM are almost ruled out. Confronting such claims, we present a particular two-parameter $f(R)$ model that: (a) is cosmologically viable and distinguishable from $Λ$CDM; (b) is compatible with the existence of relativistic stars; (c) is free of singularities of the Ricci scalar during the cosmological evolution and (d) allows the addition of high curvature corrections that could be relevant for inflation.

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arXiv2008

Dark Interactions and Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Cosmological models involving an interaction between dark matter and dark energy have been proposed in order to solve the so-called coincidence problem. Different forms of coupling have been studied, but there have been claims that observational data seem to narrow (some of) them down to something annoyingly close to the $Λ$CDM model, thus greatly reducing their ability to deal with the problem in the first place. The smallness problem of the initial energy density of dark energy has also been a target of cosmological models in recent years. Making use of a moderately general coupling scheme, this paper aims to unite these different approaches and shed some light as to whether this class of models has any true perspective in suppressing the aforementioned issues that plague our current understanding of the universe, in a quantitative and unambiguous way.

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arXiv2002

Noise and Dissipation During Preheating

We study the consequences of noise and dissipation for parametric resonance during preheating. The effective equations of motion for the inflaton and the radiation field are obtained and shown to present self-consistent noise and dissipation terms. The equations exhibit the usual parametric resonance phenomenon, allowing for exponential amplification of the radiation modes inside the instability bands. By focusing on the dimension of the border of those bands we explicitly show that they are fractal, indicating the strong dependence of the outcome in the initial conditions. The simultaneous effect of noise and dissipation to the fractality of the borders are then examined.

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arXiv2002

Trans-Planckian Physics and the Spectrum of Fluctuations in a Bouncing Universe

In this paper, we calculate the spectrum of scalar field fluctuations in a bouncing, asymptotically flat Universe, and investigate the dependence of the result on changes in the physics on length scales shorter than the Planck length which are introduced via modifications of the dispersion relation. In this model, there are no ambiguities concerning the choice of the initial vacuum state. We study an example in which the final spectrum of fluctuations depends sensitively on the modifications of the dispersion relation without needing to invoke complex frequencies. Changes in the amplitude and in the spectral index are possible, in addition to modulations of the spectrum. This strengthens the conclusions of previous work in which the spectrum of cosmological perturbations in expanding inflationary cosmologies was studied, and it was found that, for dispersion relations for which the evolution is not adiabatic, the spectrum changes from the standard prediction of scale-invariance.

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