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We consider spherically symmetric Einstein-massless-scalar field equations with negative cosmological constant in five dimensions and analyze evolution of small perturbations of anti-de Sitter spacetime using the recently proposed resonant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Piotr Bizoń , Maciej Maliborski , Andrzej Rostworowski

We generalize the topological model recently proposed and investigate the cosmological perturbations of the model. The model has an exact de Sitter background solution associated with a Becchi-Rouet-Stora(BRS) quartet terms which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Rio Saitou , Yungui Gong

We establish the linear instability of the semiclassical Einstein-Klein-Gordon system linearised about the Minkowski vacuum spacetime. The proof relies on formulating a forcing problem for both metric and state perturbations within the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Stefano Galanda , Paolo Meda , Simone Murro , Nicola Pinamonti , Gabriel Schmid

We apply the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant method for the harmonic oscillator with time dependent mass and frequency to the modes of a charged scalar field that propagates in a curved, homogeneous and isotropic spacetime. We recover the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Salvador Robles-Perez

We construct spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Euler equations, which contains a positive cosmological constant, say, the Einstein-Euler-de Sitter equations. We assume a realistic barotropic equation of state. Equilibria of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Tetu Makino

The stability of the minisuperspace model of the early universe is studied by solving the Wheeler-DeWitt equation numerically. We consider a system of Einstein gravity with a scalar field. When we solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we pick…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Atushi Ishikawa , Toshiki Isse

We establish the full global non-linear stability of the Kerr-de Sitter family of black holes, as solutions of the initial value problem for the Einstein vacuum equations with positive cosmological constant, for small angular momenta, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Peter Hintz , András Vasy

We consider a massless, minimally coupled scalar with a quartic self-interaction which is released in Bunch-Davies vacuum in locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe. It was shown, in this system, that quantum effects can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. O. Kahya , V. K. Onemli

The Schwarzschild-deSitter metric is the known solution of Einstein field equations with cosmological constant term for vacuum spherically symmetric space around a point mass M. Recently it has been reported that in a $Lamda$-dominant world…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Amir H. Abbassi

Using an approach similar to arXiv:2409.15460, we give a new proof of the nonlinear stability of de Sitter space as a solution to the Einstein vacuum equations with positive cosmological constant in $n+1$ dimensions, with $n\geq3$. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Maurus Leimbacher

We study the backreaction on the mean field geometry due to a non-conformal quantum field in a Robertson-Walker background. In the regime of small mass and small deviation from conformal coupling, we compute perturbatively the expectation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-02 Guillem Pérez-Nadal , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

A quantum Schwarzschild spacetime and a quantum Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime with cosmological constant $\Lambda$ are constructed within the framework of a noncommutative Riemannian geometry developed in an earlier publication. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Ding Wang , R. B. Zhang , Xiao Zhang

We briefly revisit the Schwarzschild-de Sitter solution in the context of five-dimensional general relativity. We obtain a class of five-dimensional solutions of Einstein vacuum field equations into which the four-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. B. Fonseca-Neto , C. Romero

Quadratic scale-invariant gravity non minimally coupled to a scalar field provides a competitive model for inflation, characterized by the transition from an unstable to a stable fixed point, both characterized by constant scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-27 Simon Boudet , Massimiliano Rinaldi , Samuele Marco Silveravalle

We consider solutions of the semi-classical Einstein-Klein-Gordon system with a cosmological constant $\Lambda\in\mathbb{R}$, where the spacetime is given by Einstein's static metric on $\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{S}^3$ with a round sphere of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Ko Sanders

In this paper, we describe the dynamics of a Bianchi Type V vacuum universe with an arbitrary cosmological constant. We begin by using an orthonormal frame approach to write Einstein's field equations as a coupled system of first-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-12 Ikjyot Singh Kohli

Motivated by black hole physics, we define the Unruh state for a scalar field in de Sitter space. Like the Bunch-Davies state, the Unruh-de Sitter state appears thermal to a static observer. However, it breaks some of the symmetries of de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-26 Lars Aalsma , Maulik Parikh , Jan Pieter van der Schaar

De Sitter solutions play an important role in cosmology because the knowledge of unstable de Sitter solutions can be useful to describe inflation, whereas stable de Sitter solutions are often used in models of late-time acceleration of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Sergey Vernov , Ekaterina Pozdeeva

We consider scalar field theory in de Sitter space with a general vacuum invariant under the continuously connected symmetries of the de Sitter group. We begin by reviewing approaches to define this as a perturbative quantum field theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin Goldstein , David A. Lowe

In the framework of finite temperature conformal scalar field theory on de Sitter space-time the linearized Einstein equations for the renormalized stress tensor are exactly solved. In this theory quantum field fluctuations are concentrated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 D. V. Fursaev , G. Miele