Quantum Ekpyrotic mechanism in Fermi-bounce curvaton cosmology

TL;DR

This paper investigates how quantum corrections in a torsion-based gravity theory induce an effective Ekpyrotic-like behavior, stabilizing the bounce in Fermi-bounce cosmology without extra fluids.

Contribution

It introduces the quantum Ekpyrotic mechanism via one-loop radiative corrections, providing a novel way to stabilize the bounce in torsion-based cosmology models.

Findings

Quantum corrections modify the energy-momentum tensor to mimic Ekpyrotic fluid.

The mechanism stabilizes the bounce by washing out anisotropies.

The renormalization group flow of the coupling constant supports the model's consistency.

Abstract

Within the context of the Fermi-bounce curvaton mechanism, we analyze the one-loop radiative corrections to the four fermion interaction, generated by the non-dynamical torsion field in the Einstein-Cartan-Holst-Sciama-Kibble theory. We show that contributions that arise from the one-loop radiative corrections modify the energy-momentum tensor, {\it mimicking} an effective Ekpyrotic fluid contribution. For these reasons, we call this effect {\it quantum Ekpyrotic} mechanism. This leads to the dynamical washing out of anisotropic contributions to the energy-momentum tensor, without introducing any new extra Ekpyrotic fluid. We discuss the stability of the bouncing mechanism and derive the renormalization group flow of the dimensional coupling constant $\xi$, checking that any change of its sign takes place towards the bounce. This enforces the theoretical motivations in favor of the torsion curvaton bounce cosmology as an alternative candidate to the inflation paradigm.