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We present self-similar cosmological solutions for a barotropic fluid plus scalar field with Brans-Dicke-type coupling to the spacetime curvature and an arbitrary power-law potential energy. We identify all the fixed points in the…

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We study the cosmology in the presence of arbitrary couplings between $p$-forms in 4-dimensional space-time for a general action respecting gauge symmetry and parity invariance. The interaction between 0-form (scalar field $\phi$) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-15 Juan P. Beltrán Almeida , Alejandro Guarnizo , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa , César A. Valenzuela-Toledo

I discuss the possibility of using a massive vector field to generate the density perturbation in the Universe. I find that a scale-invariant superhorizon spectrum of vector field perturbations is possible to generate during inflation. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Konstantinos Dimopoulos

This paper explores the dynamics of warm intermediate and logamediate inflationary models during weak dissipative regime with a general form of dissipative coefficient. We analyze these models within the framework of locally rotationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 M. Sharif , Rabia Saleem

We will examine whether anisotropic hairs exist in a string-inspired scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity model with the absence of potential of scalar field during the inflationary phase. As a result, we are able to obtain the Bianchi type I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-16 Tuan Q. Do , Sonnet Hung Q. Nguyen

Here, we have investigated the interaction of Bianchi type I anisotropic cloud string cosmological model universe with electromagnetic field in the context of general relativity. In this paper, the energy momentum tensor is assumed to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-21 Kangujam Priyokumar Singh , Mahbubur Rahman Mollah , Rajshekhar Roy Baruah , Meher Daimary

The study of a self-consistent system of interacting spinor and scalar fields within the scope of a Bianchi type I (BI) gravitational field in presence of a viscous fluid and $\Lambda$ term has been carried out. The system of equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-01 Bijan Saha , Victor Rikhvitsky

We consider an anisotropic cosmological model based on the locally rotational Bianchi I spacetime, incorporating a scalar field and a non-zero cosmological interaction term. The framework of averaging theory is employed to study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-06 Alfredo D. Millano , Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis

In a class of spatially homogeneous cosmologies including those of Bianchi type I--VIII mathematical results are presented which show that a scalar field non-minimally coupled to the scalar curvature of spacetime can dynamically yield a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-06 Roger Bieli

In this work we investigate the behavior of three-dimensional (3D) cosmological models. The simulation of inflationary and dark-energy-dominated eras are among the possible results in these 3D formulations; taking as starting point the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. H. Christmann , F. P. Devecchi , G. M. Kremer , C. M. Zanetti

We examine the anisotropy originated from a first-order vacuum phase transitions through three-dimensional numerical simulations. We apply Bianchi Type-I metric to our model that has one scalar field minimally coupled to the gravity. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-01 A. Savaş Arapoğlu , A. Emrah Yükselci

Recently an inflationary model with a vector field coupled to the inflaton was proposed and the phenomenology studied for the Bianchi type I spacetime. It was found that the model demonstrates a counter-example to the cosmic no-hair theorem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-22 Sigbjørn Hervik , David F. Mota , Mikjel Thorsrud

We consider the dynamics of a Bianchi type I spacetime in the presence of dilaton and magnetic fields. The general solution of the Einstein-Maxwell dilaton field equations can be obtained in an exact parametric form. Depending on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Harko , M. K. Mak

The stability analysis of an anisotropic inflationary universe of the four dimensional Neveu-Schwarz--Neveu-Schwarz string model with a nonvanishing cosmological constant is discussed in this paper. The accelerating expansion solution found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Chiang-Mei Chen , W. F. Kao

Recently a Born-Infeld action for dark energy and dark matter that uses additional affine connections was proposed. At background level, it was shown that the new proposal can mimic the standard cosmological evolution. In Bianchi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Davi C. Rodrigues

By imposing natural geometrical and kinematical conditions on a conformal Killing vector in Bianchi I spacetime, we show that a class of axisymmetric metrics admits a conformal motion. This class contains new exact solutions of Einstein's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Roy Maartens , Conrad Mellin

Some new exact solutions of Einstein's field equations have come forth within the scope of a spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi type-III space-time filled with barotropic fluid and dark energy by considering a variable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-20 Hassan Amirhashchi , Anirudh Pradhan , Rekha Jaiswal

We investigate inflation within $f(R,\phi)$-theories, where a dynamical scalar field is coupled to gravity. A class of models which can support early-time acceleration with the emerging of an effective cosmological constant at high…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-13 R. Myrzakulov , L. Sebastiani , S. Vagnozzi

The BICEP2 observations, if confirmed, point to a high scale of inflation and large field excursions during the inflationary era. Non-compact string moduli spaces are a suggestive setting for these phenomena. While unlikely to be described…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-10 Michael Dine , Laurel Stephenson-Haskins

We construct a model of quintessential inflation in Palatini $R^2$ gravity employing a scalar field with a simple exponential potential and coupled to gravity with a running non-minimal coupling. At early times, the field acts as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Alexandros Karam , Samuel Sánchez López , Eemeli Tomberg