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This research investigates the impact of modified gravity on cosmic scales, focusing on $f(Q)$ cosmology. By applying energy conditions, the study reconstructs various $f(Q)$ models, considering an accelerating Universe, quintessence, and a…

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Assuming that the background geometry is filled with free gas consisting of matter and radiation and no phase transitions being occurred in the early Universe, we discuss the thermodynamics of this {\it closed} system using classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Tawfik , H. Magdy

With due consideration of reasonable cosmological assumptions within the limit of the present cosmological scenario, we have analysed a spherically symmetric metric in 5D setting within the framework of Lyra manifold. The model universe is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Pheiroijam Suranjoy Singh , Kangujam Priyokumar Singh

In the early seventies, Alan Sandage defined cosmology as the search for two numbers: Hubble parameter ${{H}_{0}}$ and deceleration parameter ${{q}_{0}}$. The first of the two basic cosmological parameters (the Hubble parameter) describes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-01 Yu. L. Bolotin , V. A. Cherkaskiy , O. A. Lemets , D. A. Yerokhin , L. G. Zazunov

A homogeneous and isotropic quantum cosmological system (universe) initially filled with a uniform scalar field that has a potential in the power law representation is considered. Depending on the epoch, this scalar field yields barotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-20 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

We present the analytic forms for the spectra of the cosmological perturbations from an initially anisotropic universe for the high momentum modes in the context of WKB approximations, as the continuation of the work [29]. We consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Masato Minamitsuji

Energy transfer in the dark sector of the universe gives rise to new phenomena of special interest in modern cosmology. When dark energy is modeled as a phantom scalar field, interactions become crucial to avoid Big Rip singularities. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Genly Leon , Daya Shankar , Amlan Halder , Andronikos Paliathanasis

As the 2015 results of Plancks mission have recently been made available, it is interesting to check the evolution of the scale factor and of the Hubble parameter in the light of these results. Two models in line with Einsteins field…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-08 Guibert U. Crevecoeur

We investigate the phase space of a scalar field theory obtained by minisuperspace deformation. We consider quintessence or phantom scalar fields in the action which arise from minisuperspace deformation on the Einstein-Hilbert action. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Genly Leon , Alfredo D. Millano , Andronikos Paliathanasis

New measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe have plunged the standard model of cosmology into a severe crisis. In this letter, we propose a simple resolution to the problem that relies on a first order phase transition in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Florian Niedermann , Martin S. Sloth

Cosmological scalar fields coupled to the Standard Model drive temporal variations in the fundamental constants that grow with redshift, positioning the early Universe as a powerful tool to study such models. We investigate the dynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Masha Baryakhtar , Olivier Simon , Zachary J. Weiner

The description of the cosmological expansion and its possible local manifestations via treating the proper conformal transformations as a coordinate transformation from a comoving Lorentz reference frame to an uniformly accelerated one is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-03 L. M. Tomilchik

It is accepted in modern cosmology that the scalar field responsible for the inflationary stage of the early Universe is completely transformed into matter. It is assumed that the accelerated expansion is currently driven by dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-30 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , A. M. Nikishin

Cosmological scaling solutions, which give rise to a scalar-field density proportional to a background fluid density during radiation and matter eras, are attractive to alleviate the energy scale problem of dark energy. In the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Junko Ohashi , Shinji Tsujikawa

We construct gravitational modifications that go beyond Horndeski, namely theories with extended nonminimal derivative couplings, in which the coefficient functions depend not only on the scalar field but also on its kinetic energy. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-01 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Minas Tsoukalas

We propose a new cosmological model with a time-dependent cosmological constant ($\Lambda\propto 1/t^2$), which starting at the Planck time as $\Lambda_{Pl}\sim M^2_{Pl}$, evolves to the present-day allowed value of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 J. Lopez , D. Nanopoulos

We show that on the average, homogeneous and isotropic scalar field and on the average homogeneous and isotropic ensembles of classical and quantum gravitational waves generate the de Sitter expansion of the empty (with no matter)…

General Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Leonid Marochnik

This is a short summary of a project to construct a first principles cosmology of the Standard Model epoch, the period starting shortly before the electro-weak transition. The cosmology is derived from a simple initial state entirely within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-14 Daniel Friedan

This paper consider an universe dominated by baryonic matter, radiation and a nonminimally coupled massive scalar field under the action of a symmetry breaking potential. Inflation occurs naturally with appropriated slow-roll values. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-02 S. H. Pereira

In many cases a massive nonlinear scalar field can lead to accelerated expansion in cosmological models. This paper contains mathematical results on this subject for flat Robertson-Walker space-time. Global existence to the coupled…

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