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A Universe filled with a homogeneous scalar field exhibits `Cosmological hysteresis'. Cosmological hysteresis is caused by the asymmetry in the equation of state during expansion and contraction. This asymmetry results in the formation of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Varun Sahni , Aleksey Toporensky

The Cyclic Model is a radical, new cosmological scenario which proposes that the Universe undergoes an endless sequence of epochs which begin with a `big bang' and end in a `big crunch.' When the Universe bounces from contraction to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

The properties of the quantum universe on extremely small spacetime scales are studied in the semi-classical approach to the well-defined quantum model. It is shown that near the initial cosmological singularity point quantum gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

We propose a cosmological model in which the universe undergoes an endless sequence of cosmic epochs each beginning with a `bang' and ending in a `crunch.' The temperature and density are finite at each transition from crunch to bang.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

Universe structure emerges in the unreduced, complex-dynamic interaction process with the simplest initial configuration (two attracting homogeneous fields, quant-ph/9902015). The unreduced interaction analysis gives intrinsically creative…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

Old and new puzzles of cosmology are reexamined from the point of view of quantum theory of the universe developed here. It is shown that in proposed approach the difficulties of the standard cosmology do not arise. The theory predicts the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

Based on concepts drawn from the ekpyrotic scenario and M-theory, we elaborate our recent proposal of a cyclic model of the Universe. In this model, the Universe undergoes an endless sequence of cosmic epochs which begin with the Universe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

In order to account for the observable Universe, any comprehensive theory or model of cosmology must draw from many disciplines of physics, including gauge theories of strong and weak interactions, the hydrodynamics and microphysics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Peter Anninos

The main foundations of the standard $\Lambda $CDM model of cosmology are that: 1) The redshifts of the galaxies are due to the expansion of the Universe plus peculiar motions; 2) The cosmic microwave background radiation and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We present a model of the expanding Universe that begins in a zero energy vacuum state. The Universe results from the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry, wherein the vacuum with positive expectation energy produces the dark…

General Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 R. N. Henriksen

We propose that the Universe created from "nothing" with relatively small particles number and quickly relaxed to quasiequilibrium state at the Planck parameters. The classic cosmological solution for this Universe with Lambda-term has two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 V. Burdyuzha , O. Lalakulich , Yu. Ponomarev , G. Vereshkov

Super-high energy corpuscular and gamma rays as well as cosmic high--power density sources are hard to explain in a galaxy model framework. Attempts to include some of those phenomena in the Standard Cosmological Model also encounter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoli Vankov

The origin of cosmic rays is one of the major unresolved questions in astrophysics. In particular, the highest energy cosmic rays observed possess macroscopic energies and their origin is likely associated with the most energetic processes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Guenter Sigl

Recent observations suggest that a large fraction of the energy density of the universe has negative pressure. One explanation is vacuum energy density; another is quintessence in the form of a scalar field slowly evolving down a potential.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 Ivaylo Zlatev , Limin Wang , Paul J. Steinhardt

Increasing evidence suggests that most of the energy density of the universe consists of a dark energy component with negative pressure, a ``cosmological constant" that causes the cosmic expansion to accelerate. In this paper, we address…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 C. Armendariz-Picon , V. Mukhanov , Paul J. Steinhardt

The origin of the ultra high energy cosmic rays via annihilation of heavy stable, fermions "f", of the cosmological dark matter (DM) is studied. The particles in question are supposed to be created by the scalaron decays in $R^2$ modified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 E. V. Arbuzova , A. D. Dolgov , A. A. Nikitenko

Today, both particle physics and cosmology are described by few parameter Standard Models, i.e. it is possible to deduce consequence of particle physics in cosmology and vice verse. The former is examined in this lecture, in light of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-05 P. Pralavorio

This is a short summary of a project to construct a first principles cosmology of the Standard Model epoch, the period starting shortly before the electro-weak transition. The cosmology is derived from a simple initial state entirely within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-14 Daniel Friedan

A nonsingular emergent universe cosmology can be realized by a nonconventional spinor field as first developed in \cite{Cai:2012yf}. We study the mechanisms of generating scale-invariant primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-11 Yi-Fu Cai , Youping Wan , Xinmin Zhang

We consider an isotropic and homogeneous universe in loop quantum cosmology. We assume that the matter content of the universe is dominated by dust matter in early time and a phantom matter at late time which constitutes the dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-26 Yaser Tavakoli , Julio C. Fabris