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The recent observational evidence of deviations from the $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model points towards the presence of evolving dark energy. The simplest possibility consists of a cosmological scalar field $\varphi$, dubbed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 William J. Wolf , Carlos García-García , Theodore Anton , Pedro G. Ferreira

By assuming the spatially flat~FLRW line-element and employing the Hamiltonian formalism, a noncommutative (NC) setting of the Brans-Dicke (BD) theory is introduced. We investigate gravity-driven acceleration and kinetic inflation in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-18 S. M. M. Rasouli , Paulo Vargas Moniz

We consider a dynamics of Higgs' field in the framework of cosmological models involving the scalar field from Nonsymmetric Kaluza-Klein (Jordan-Thiry) Theory. The field plays here a role of a quintessence field. We consider phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Kalinowski

We consider the question of deriving initial conditions for scalar fields in driving both an early and late quintessence phase. The dark energy field presents an unresolved uniformity problem. Further difficulties with initial conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-20 D. H. Coule

We previously showed that we can use di quark pairs as a model of how nucleation of a new universe occurs. We now can construct a model showing evolution from a dark matter dark energy mix to a pure cosmological constant cosmology due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Beckwith

The evolution of the non-adiabatic pressure perturbation during inflation driven by two scalar fields is studied numerically for three different types of models. In the first model, the fields have standard kinetic terms. The other two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 C. van de Bruck , S. Vu

We study the `initial state' of an anisotropic universe in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity filled with a scalar field, whose potential has various forms. With this purpose, the evolution of a spatially-flat, homogeneous anisotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Hyeong-Chan Kim

We examine in the context of general relativity the dynamics of a spatially flat Robertson-Walker universe filled with a classical minimally coupled scalar field \phi of exponential potential ~ e^{-\mu\phi} plus pressureless baryonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kehagias , G. Kofinas

The conformal equivalence of some cosmological models in Brans-Dicke theory to general relativistic cosmologies with a scalar field is discussed. In the case of radiation-dominated universes, it is shown that the presence of the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 S. Kolitch , B. Hall

The early Cosmology driven by a single scalar field, both massless and massive, in the context of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity, is explored. We show the existence of nonsingular solutions of bouncing and loitering type (depending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-15 David Benisty , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

We present a phase-space analysis of cosmology containing multiple scalar fields with a positive or negative cross-coupling exponential potential. We show that there exist power-law kinetic-potential-scaling solutions for a sufficiently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Zong-Kuan Guo , Yun-Song Piao , Rong-Gen Cai , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

In this short note we discuss the possibility of producing a slow rolling inflationary background by considering a massive scalar field whose kinetic term is non-minimally coupled to gravity.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Cristiano Germani , Alex Kehagias

The nonminimal coupling (NMC) of the scalar field to the Ricci curvature is unavoidable in many cosmological scenarios. Inflation and quintessence models based on nonminimally coupled scalar fields are studied, with particular attention to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerio Faraoni

Using the non-canonical model of scalar field, the cosmological consequences of a pervasive, self-interacting, homogeneous and rolling scalar field are studied. In this model, the scalar field potential is nonlinear and decreases in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-18 Z. Ossoulian , T. Golanbari , H. Sheikhahmadi , Kh. Saaidi

In this paper we investigate the accelerating and decelerating cosmological models with non-linear spinor fields and non-minimal interaction of $f(R)$ gravity with a scalar field. We combine two different approaches to the description of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-12 Yu. A. Rybalov , A. N. Makarenko , K. E. Osetrin

In this paper, we consider $2+1$ dimensional gravitational theory including a Dirac field that is minimally coupled to New Massive Gravity. We investigate cosmological solutions of the field equations by using the self-interaction potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-29 Ganim Gecim , Yusuf Sucu

The general k-essence Lagrangian for the existence of cosmological scaling solutions is derived in the presence of multiple scalar fields coupled to a barotropic perfect fluid. In addition to the scaling fixed point associated with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-14 Takeshi Chiba , Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

The correspondence of single-field cosmological models based on Einstein gravity to modern observational data is considered. A method is proposed to determine possible types of dynamics based on extreme values of the scalar field. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 I. V. Fomin

We give a detailed exposition of the formalism of Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) with emphasis on the perturbative determination of observables. KFT is a statistical non-equilibrium classical field theory based on the path integral formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Lavinia Heisenberg , Shayan Hemmatyar , Stefan Zentarra

Gauss-Bonnet-dilatonic coupling in four dimension plays an important role to explain late time cosmic evolution. However, this term is an outcome of low energy string effective action and thus ought to be important in the early universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-16 Subhra Debnath , Soumendra Nath Ruz , Ranajit Mandal , Abhik Kumar Sanyal