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We show that the accelerated expansion of the Universe can be viewed as a crossover phenomenon where the Newton constant and the Cosmological constant are actually scaling operators, dynamically evolving in the attraction basin of a…

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The integral of the energy density function $\mathfrak m$ of a closed Robertson-Walker (RW) spacetime with source a perfect fluid and cosmological constant $\Lambda$ gives rise to an action functional on the space of scale functions of RW…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Olimjon Eshkobilov , Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

The Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) solution to the Einstein-scalar field system with spatial topology $\mathbb{S}^3$ models a universe that emanates from a singular spacelike hypersurface (the Big Bang), along which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Jared Speck

We consider a k=0 Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model within loop quantum cosmology (LQC) and explore the issue of its semiclassical limit. The model is exactly solvable and allows us to construct analytical (Gaussian) coherent-state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-08 Alejandro Corichi , Edison Montoya

A review on spatially flat D-dimensional Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model of the universe has been performed. Some standard parameterizations of the equation of state parameter of the Dark Energy models are proposed and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-26 Tanwi Bandyopadhyay , Ujjal Debnath

In this article, we explore the homogeneous and isotropic flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model in Chameleon cosmology. By considering a non-minimal coupling between the scalar field and matter, we present a non-singular bouncing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-06 Ashutosh Singh , Anirudh Pradhan

We show that the Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) framework has an instability towards the growth of fluid flow anisotropies, even if the Universe is accelerating. This flow (tilt) instability in the matter sector is invisible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Chethan Krishnan , Ranjini Mondol , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

The assumptions of large-scale homogeneity and isotropy underly the familiar Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric that appears to be an accurate description of our Universe. In this paper, we propose a new strategy of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-24 Shuo Cao , Jingzhao Qi , Zhoujian Cao , Marek Biesiada , Jin Li , Yu Pan , Zong-Hong Zhu

A new class of exact solutions of Einstein's field equations with a perfect fluid source, variable gravitational coupling $G$ and cosmological term $\Lambda$ for FRW spacetime is obtained by considering variable deceleration parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Anirudh Pradhan , Ajay Kumar Singh , Saeed Otarod

We study the phase--space of FLRW models derived from Scalar--Tensor Gravity where the non--minimal coupling is $F(\phi)=\xi\phi^2$ and the effective potential is $V(\phi)=\lambda \phi^n$. Our analysis allows to unfold many feature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S Carloni , J A Leach , S Capozziello , P K S Dunsby

This study systematically investigates the cosmological dynamics of two well-motivated functional forms in $f(T,B)$ gravity within a flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe. Here $T$ denotes the torsion scalar and $B$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Jianwen Liu , Fabao Gao , Aqeela Razzaq

In the framework of Lorentzian warped products, we study the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model to investigate non-smooth curvatures associated with multiple discontinuities involved in the evolution of the universe. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaedong Choi , Soon-Tae Hong

If torsion exists, it generates gravitational four-fermion interaction (GFFI). This interaction gets dominating on the Planck scale. If one confines to the regular, axial-axial part of this interaction, the results do not comply with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 I. B. Khriplovich , A. S. Rudenko

The cosmological scale factor $a(t)$ of the flat-space Robertson-Walker geometry is examined from a Hamiltonian perspective wherein $a(t)$ is interpreted as an independent dynamical coordinate and the curvature density $\sqrt {- g(a)}…

General Physics · Physics 2008-10-04 M. Ibison

Recently, inhomogeneous generalisations of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmological models have gained interest in the astrophysical community and are more often employed to study cosmological phenomena. However, in many papers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Krzysztof Bolejko , Marie-Noëlle Célérier , Andrzej Krasiński

It is well known that classical Unimodular Gravity (UG) is equivalent to General Relativity, but is not clear the equivalence at the quantum level. Here we exhibit, in the UG framework, the Quantum Cosmology (QC) for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 J. A. Astorga-Moreno , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia , E. A. Mena-Barboza

Motivated by the growing interest in the nonmetricity-matter couplings, we develop the scalar-tensor formulation of recently introduced $f(Q,T)$ gravity, where $Q$ is the nonmetricity and $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-27 Adam Z. Kaczmarek , João Luís Rosa , Dominik Szczȩśniak

The $f(T)$ gravity is one of the extensions of teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, in which more general functions of the torsion scalar $T$ can be described. With the proposed functional form of $f(T) = \alpha T - \beta u^{-n} +…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Suraj Kumar Behera , S. A. Kadam , Pratik P. Ray , B. Mishra

We introduce the notion of topological fragility and briefly discuss some examples from the literature. An important example of this type of fragility is the way globally anisotropic Bianchi V generalisations of the FLRW $k=-1$ model result…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 M. J. Reboucas , R. K. Tavakol , A. F. F. Teixeira

We study flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmological models for a scalar field coupled nonminimally to teleparallel gravity with generic coupling and potential functions. The goal of this paper is to determine the conditions under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-08 Laur Jarv , Alexey Toporensky