Viable bounce from non-minimal inflation

Abstract: The fundamental difficulty in constructing a viable classical bouncing model is to evade the no-go theorem that states that, simultaneously maintaining the observational bounds on the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the non-Gaussian scalar spectrum is not possible. Furthermore, constructing the bouncing phase leads to numerous instabilities such as gradient, ghost, and so on. Most importantly, the model fails to be an attractor, in general, meaning that the solution heavily depends on the initial conditions, resulting in anisotropic (BKL) instability in the system. In this paper, using conformal transformation, we construct a classical bouncing model from a non-minimal slow-roll inflationary model. As a result of the conformal transformation, we show that the model is free of the above instabilities and that it leads to a smooth transition from bouncing to the traditional reheating scenario. We also look at the dynamical analysis of the system in the presence of a barotropic fluid and discover that there exists a wide range of model parameters that allow the model to avoid the BKL instability, making it a viable alternative to inflationary dynamics.