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The theory of inflation is one of the fundamental and revolutionary developments of modern cosmology that became able to explain many issues of early universe in the context of the standard cosmological model (SCM). However, the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Jaume de Haro , Supriya Pan

This thesis is dedicated to studying cosmological inflation, which is a period of accelerated expansion in the very early Universe that is required to explain the observed anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. Inflation, when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-02 Chris Pattison

In this paper we consider realistic model of inflation embedded in the framework of loop quantum cosmology. Phase of inflation is preceded here by the phase of a quantum bounce. We show how parameters of inflation depend on the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jakub Mielczarek

In this paper we study slow-roll inflation with holonomy corrections from loop quantum cosmology. Both tensor and scalar power spectra of primordial perturbations are computed up to the first order in slow-roll parameters and $V/\rho_{c}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Jakub Mielczarek

We develop a quantum-cosmological framework in which the inflationary potential emerges from the structure of the wave function of the universe rather than being postulated. Starting from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Gerasimos Kouniatalis

The evolution of a scalar field is explored taking into account the presence of a background fluid in a positively curved Universe in the framework of loop quantum cosmology. Though the mechanism that provides the initial conditions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. J. Nunes

Non-perturbative corrections from loop quantum cosmology (LQC) to the scalar matter sector is already known to imply inflation. We prove that the LQC modified scalar field generates exponential inflation in the small scale factor regime,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ghanashyam Date , Golam Mortuza Hossain

We suggest a new type of hill-top inflation originating from the initial conditions in the form of the microcanonical density matrix for the cosmological model with a large number of quantum fields conformally coupled to gravity. Initial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik , D. V. Nesterov

We investigate how various inflationary and bouncing cosmologies can be realized by imperfect fluids with a generalized equation of state, in the context of both classical and loop quantum cosmology. With regards to the inflationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-06 V. K. Oikonomou

Inflation is often described through the dynamics of a scalar field, slow-rolling in a suitable potential. Ultimately, this inflaton must be identified as the expectation value of a quantum field, evolving in a quantum effective potential.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-11 Jens O. Andersen , Magdalena Eriksson , Anders Tranberg

In this Letter, we study analytically the evolutions of the flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe and its linear perturbations in the framework of {\em the dressed metric approach} in loop quantum cosmology (LQC).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-21 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Klaus Kirsten , Gerald Cleaver , Qin Sheng

Loop Quantum Gravity (L.Q.G.) is one of the two most promising tentative theory for a quantum description of gravity. When applied to the entire universe, the so-called Loop Quantum Cosmology (L.Q.C.) framework offers microscopical models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Grain

In loop quantum cosmology (LQC), the initial singularity is replaced by a quantum bounce, leading to a universal post-bounce evolution characterized by three distinct epochs: bouncing, transition, and slow-roll inflation, before the hot…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Yogesh , Bao-Fei Li , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Anzhong Wang

By incorporating quantum aspects of gravity, Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) provides a self-consistent extension of the inflationary scenario, allowing for modifications in the primordial inflationary power spectrum with respect to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Micol Benetti , Leila Graef , Rudnei O. Ramos

The FRW model with non-minimally coupled massive scalar field has been investigated in LQC framework. Considered form of the potential and coupling allows applications to Higgs driven inflation. Out of two frames used in the literature to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Michal Artymowski , Andrea Dapor , Tomasz Pawlowski

In this paper we study possible observational consequences of the bouncing cosmology. We consider a model where a phase of inflation is preceded by a cosmic bounce. While we consider in this paper only that the bounce is due to loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Jakub Mielczarek , Michal Kamionka , Aleksandra Kurek , Marek Szydlowski

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of pre-inflation with Hilltop potential in the framework of loop quantum cosmology. The initial conditions of inflaton field at the quantum bounce is categorized into two classes, first one is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-03 M. Shahalam , Kuralay Yesmakhanova , Zhanar Umurzakhova

On the one hand, inflation is an extremely convincing scenario: it solves most cosmological paradoxes and generates fluctuations that became the seeds for the growth of structures. It, however, suffers from a "naturalness" problem:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-04 Aurelien Barrau

The very basics of cosmological inflation are discussed. We derive the equations of motion for the inflaton field, introduce the slow-roll parameters, and present the computation of the inflationary perturbations and their connection to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-31 K. Enqvist

Holography is expected as one of the promising descriptions of quantum general relativity. We present a model for a cosmological system involving two holographic screens and find that their equilibrium exactly yields a standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Yi-Fu Cai , Jie Liu , Hong Li