Fermi-bounce cosmology and scale-invariant power spectrum

We develop a nonsingular bouncing cosmology using a nontrivial coupling of general relativity to fermionic fields. The usual big bang singularity is avoided thanks to a negative energy density contribution from the fermions. Our theory is ghost free since the fermionic operator that generates the bounce is equivalent to torsion, which has no kinetic terms. The physical system consists of standard general relativity plus a topological sector for gravity and fermionic matter described by Dirac fields with a nonminimal coupling. We show that a scale-invariant power spectrum generated in the contracting phase can be recovered by suitable choices of fermion number density and bare mass, thus providing a possible alternative to the inflationary scenario.

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