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The k=0 Friedmann Lemaitre Robertson Walker model with a positive cosmological constant and a massless scalar field is analyzed in detail. If one uses the scalar field as relational time, new features arise already in the Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Tomasz Pawlowski , Abhay Ashtekar

The quantization of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime in the presence of a negative cosmological constant was used in a recent paper to conclude that there are solutions that avoid singularities (big bang--big crunch) at the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Amore , Alfredo Aranda , Mayra Cervantes , J. L. Díaz-Cruz , Francisco M. Fernández

Fermion systems with more than two components can exhibit pairing condensates of much more complex structure than the well-known single BCS condensate of spin-up and spin-down fermions. In the framework of the exactly solvable SO(8)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. F. Bertsch , J. Dukelsky , B. Errea , C. Esebbag

In the context of the current lack of compatibility of the classical and quantum approaches to gravity, exactly solvable elementary pseudo-Hermitian quantum models are analyzed supporting the acceptability of a point-like form of Big Bang.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Miloslav Znojil

The BFSS matrix model is a suggested non-perturbative definition of string theory. Starting from a thermal state of this matrix model, we show how space and time can emerge dynamically. Results from the IKKT matrix model indicate that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-07 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Robert Brandenberger , Samuel Laliberte

One of the greatest problems of standard cosmology is the Big Bang singularity. Previously it has been shown that non-local ghostfree higher-derivative modifications of Einstein gravity in the ultra-violet regime can admit non-singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Tirthabir Biswas , Tomi Koivisto , Anupam Mazumdar

In a recent paper we discovered that a fermionic condensate is formed from gravitational interactions due to the covariant coupling of fermions in the presence of a torsion-fermion contact interaction. The condensate gap gives a negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephon Alexander , Deepak Vaid

The Friedmann cosmological solution of the standard Einstein gravitational field equation has a curvature singularity at a moment in time known as the Big Bang. It has been suggested that this Big Bang curvature singularity can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Frans R. Klinkhamer

We study a quantum Hot Big Bang in the connection representation, with a matter constant of motion m whose conjugate defines time. Superpositions in m induce a unitary inner product. The wavefunction reveals a resolution of the singularity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-02 Steffen Gielen , João Magueijo

The article is dedicated to a discussion regarding the role of Barrow's ''Zero Universes'' in quantum cosmology. In particular, we demonstrate that if quantum gravity effects are modeled by the quantum potential method associated with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-08 Valerian A. Yurov , Artyom V. Yurov

We consider the possibility of describing the Higgs effect in unified theories without the Higgs potential in the presence of the Einstein gravity with the conformal gravity-scalar coupling under the assumption of homogeneous matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Pervushin , V. I Smirichinski

A phenomenological formalism is presented in which the apparent acceleration of the universe is generated by large-scale structure formation, thus eliminating the magnitude and coincidence fine-tuning problems of the Cosmological Constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-14 Brett Bochner

We study a previously largely unexplored branch of homogeneous and isotropic background solutions in ghost-free massive bigravity with consistent double matter coupling. For a certain family of parameters we find `self-inflated' FLRW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-15 Macarena Lagos , Johannes Noller

We consider a phantom scalar field coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet scalar within a spatially flat FLRW geometry. Moreover, we assume a nonzero interaction between the scalar field and the matter term. We perform a detailed phase space analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Giannis Papagiannopoulos , Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis

Starting from the classic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker theory with big bang it is shown that the solutions of the field equations can be extended to negative times. Choosing a new cosmic time scale instead of proper time one achieves complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-03 Joachim Schroeter

This work aims to study consequences of \textit{combined variable field theory} developed in [1] by analysing FLRW models of gravity. It shows $\Phi_{q \rightarrow 0} \rightarrow \infty$ is the Big bang in combined variable field theoretic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-14 Avadhut Purohit

One of the most remarkable phenomena in Loop Quantum Cosmology is that, at least for homogeneous cosmological models, the Big Bang is replaced with a Big Bounce that connects our universe with a previous branch without passing through a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-07 Paula Tarrío , Mikel Fernández-Méndez , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

Supersymmetric theories in four dimensions with chiral superfields have very rich BRS cohomology, which gives rise to potential anomalies in theories that contain composite antichiral spinor superfields. Assuming the coefficients are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 J. A. Dixon

Some long standing issues concerning the quantum nature of the big bang are resolved in the context of homogeneous isotropic models with a scalar field. Specifically, the known results on the resolution of the big bang singularity in loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Abhay Ashtekar , Tomasz Pawlowski , Parampreet Singh

An approach is presented to address singularities in general relativity using a complex Riemannian spacetime extension. We demonstrate how this method can be applied to both black hole and cosmological singularities, specifically focusing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 John W. Moffat