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We investigate the post-bounce background dynamics in a certain class of single bounce scenarios studied in the literature, in which the cosmic bounce is driven by a scalar field with negative exponential potential such as the ekpyrotic potential. We show that those models can actually lead to cyclic evolutions with repeated bounces. These cyclic evolutions, however, do not account for the currently observed late-time accelerated expansion and hence are not cosmologically viable. In this respect we consider a new kind of cyclic model proposed recently and derive some cosmological constraints on this model.
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An, O.S., Kang, J.U., Kim, T.H. et al. Notes on the post-bounce background dynamics in bouncing cosmologies. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 85 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)085
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