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The problem of renormalization of the semiclassical one-loop equations used in the non-equilibrium field theory is considered. Recently, the renormalizability of such equations has been justified for some special cases of classical field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Yu. Shvedov

Motivated by the study of quantum fields in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetime, the one-loop effective action for a scalar field defined in the ultrastatic manifold $R\times H^3/\Gamma$, $H^3/\Gamma$ being the finite volume,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Guido Cognola , Sergio Zerbini

We study the dissipation of oscillating scalar backgrounds in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker universe using non-equilibrium quantum field theory. To be concrete, a $Z_2$-symmetric two-scalar model with quartic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-15 Zi-Liang Wang , Wen-Yuan Ai

Renormalization is a powerful technique in statistical physics to extract the large-scale behavior of interacting many-body models. These notes aim to give an introduction to perturbative methods that operate on the level of the stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-09 Nikos Papanikolaou , Thomas Speck

We analyse a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity in the context of a Universe described by the flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (F-R-W) metric. The adopted model comprises a Universe filled by the scalar field and standard matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-16 Rudinei C. de Souza , Raíla André , Gilberto M. Kremer

In this paper we study dynamics of the closed FRW model with holonomy corrections coming from loop quantum cosmology. We consider models with a scalar field and cosmological constant. In case of the models with cosmological constant and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-19 Jakub Mielczarek , Orest Hrycyna , Marek Szydlowski

We apply a very simple procedure to construct non-singular cosmological models for flat Friedmann universes filled with minimally coupled scalar fields or by tachyon Born-Infeld-type fields. Remarkably, for the minimally coupled scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-14 Alexander Kamenshchik , Polina Petriakova

We study the quantum vacuum fluctuations around closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) radiation-filled universes with nonvanishing cosmological constant. These vacuum fluctuations are represented by a conformally coupled massive scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bouhmadi-Lopez , L. J. Garay , P. F. Gonzalez-Diaz

We establish a general thermodynamic scheme for cosmic fluids with internal self-interactions and discuss equilibrium and non-equilibrium aspects of such systems in connection with (generalized) symmetry properties of the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Winfried Zimdahl , Alexander B. Balakin

We study the cosmological evolution of the field equations in the context of Einstein-Aether cosmology by including a scalar field in a spatially flat Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker spacetime. Our analysis is separated into two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-17 Andronikos Paliathanasis , G. Papagiannopoulos , Spyros Basilakos , John D. Barrow

We consider a time independent Schrodinger type equation derived from the equations of motion that drives a single scalar field in a standard cosmology model for inflation in a flat space-time with a Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-05 N. Barbosa-Cendejas , M. A. Reyes

We discuss the appropriate normalization of modes required to generate a homogeneous random field in an open Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We consider scalar random fields and certain tensor random fields that can be obtained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Andrew R Liddle , David H Lyth , David Wands

In this letter we investigate acceleration in the flat cosmological model with a conformally coupled phantom field and we show that acceleration is its generic feature. We reduce the dynamics of the model to a 3-dimensional dynamical system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Orest Hrycyna , Marek Szydlowski

We study a cosmological setup consisting of a FRW metric as the background geometry with a massless scalar field in the framework of classical polymerization of a given dynamical system. To do this, we first introduce the polymeric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-21 B. Vakili , K. Nozari , V. Hosseinzadeh , M. A. Gorji

We investigate a bounce inflation model with a graceful exit into the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) decelerated Universe within $f(T)$ gravity framework, where $T$ is the torsion scalar in the teleparallelism. We study the cosmic thermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-13 Kazuharu Bamba , G. G. L. Nashed , W. El Hanafy , Sh. K. Ibraheem

We analyze the dynamics of a single scalar field in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes with spatial curvature. We obtain the fixed point solutions which are shown to be late time attractors. In particular, we determine the corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Edmund J. Copeland , Shuntaro Mizuno , Maryam Shaeri

We present a systematic study of one-loop quantum corrections in scalar effective field theories from a geometric viewpoint, emphasizing the role of field-space curvature and its renormalisation. By treating the scalar fields as coordinates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-28 Patrick Aigner , Luigi Bellafronte , Emanuele Gendy , Dominik Haslehner , Andreas Weiler

The inflationary epoch and the late time acceleration of the expansion rate of universe can be explained by assuming a gravitationally coupled scalar field. In this article, we propose a new method of finding exact solutions in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-19 Albin Joseph , Rajib Saha

We study the $\lambda \phi^4$ field theory in a flat Robertson-Walker space-time using the functional Sch\"odinger picture. We introduce a simple Gaussian approximation to analyze the time evolution of pure states and we establish the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 O. J. P. Eboli , H. C. Reis

In this paper, working in a Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW), first, in the flat case, we recover the generalized Friedman equation of Quantum Loop cosmology, and therefore the cosmological bounce, in the framework of modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Alessandro Casalino , Bruno Sanna , Lorenzo Sebastiani , Sergio Zerbini