Towards anisotropy-free and nonsingular bounce cosmology with scale-invariant perturbations

We investigate nonsingular bounce realizations in the framework of ghost-free generalized Galileon cosmology, which furthermore can be free of the anisotropy problem. Considering an ekpyroticlike potential we can obtain a total equation of state larger than 1 in the contracting phase, which is necessary for the evolution to be stable against small anisotropic fluctuations. Since such a large equation of state forbids the Galileon field to generate the desired form of perturbations, we additionally introduce the curvaton field which can in general produce the observed nearly scale-invariant spectrum. In particular, we provide approximate analytical and exact semianalytical expressions under which the bouncing scenario is consistent with observations. Finally, the combined Galileon-curvaton system is free of the big rip after the bounce.