Speaker
Brooks Thomas
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 review the how stasis arises and 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.
Author
Brooks Thomas
Co-authors
Prof.
Keith R. Dienes
(University of Arizona)
Lucien Heurtier
(King's College London)
Dr
Fei Huang
(Weizmann Institute)
Prof.
Timothy M. P. Tait
(University of California, Irvine)
Ms
Anna Paulsen
(Brown University)
Mr
Daniel Hoover
(Lafayette College)
