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Harmonic Cosmology: The Universe Before the Big Bang and How Much We Can Know About It

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To understand the strong quantum phase that is expected to be realized in a small and highly curved universe around the big bang, big bang we return to the solvable model solvable model of loop quantum cosmology developed in Sect. 5.3.2.

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  1. Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry, Pennsylvania State University, 104, Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA, 16802-6300, USA

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Bojowald, M. (2011). Harmonic Cosmology: The Universe Before the Big Bang and How Much We Can Know About It. In: Quantum Cosmology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 835. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8276-6_6

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