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Deformation quantization is applied to quantize gravitational systems coupled with matter. This quantization procedure is performed explicitly for quantum cosmology of these systems in a flat minisuper(phase)space. The procedure is employed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Ruben Cordero , Erik Diaz , Hugo Garcia-Compean , Francisco J. Turrubiates

In hep-th/0506040 we discussed a classically constrained model of gravity. This theory contains known solutions of General Relativity (GR), and admits solutions that are absent in GR. Here we study cosmological implications of some of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gregory Gabadadze , Yanwen Shang

Selection of physically meaningful solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the wavefunction in quantum cosmology, can be attained by a reduction of the theory to the sector of true physical degrees of freedom and their canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-06 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

The quantized Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model minimally coupled to a free massless scalar field is studied and interpreted in the Bohm-de Broglie framework. We analyze the quantum bohmian trajectories corresponding to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-09 E. Sergio Santini

We investigate a cosmological model whose energy content is described by a Chaplygin gas represented by a scalar field $\phi$ with an associated potential producing a big bang singularity such that for vanishing scale factor, $a\to 0$, one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-29 Frank Steiner , Andreas Woehr

In this work the wave functions associated to the quantum relativistic universe, which is described by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, are obtained. Taking into account different kinds of energy density, namely, matter, radiation, vacuum, dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 H. S. Vieira , V. B. Bezerra , C. R. Muniz , M. S. Cunha

Scalar-tensor theory of gravity with non-minimal coupling is a fairly good candidate for dark energy, required to explain late-time cosmic evolution. Here we study the very early stage of evolution of the universe with a modified version of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Ranajit Mandal , Chandramouli Sarkar , Abhik Kumar Sanyal

In the framework of a flat Friedmann-Lema{\^\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) geometry, we present a nonsingular model (no big bang singularity at finite time) of our universe describing its evolution starting from its early inflationary era…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 Jaume de Haro , Jaume Amorós , Supriya Pan

In this paper it is studied the cosmology of a homogeneous and isotropic spacetime endorsed with a conformally coupled massless scalar field. We find six different solutions of the Friedmann equation that represent six different types of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-20 Salvador J. Robles-Perez

We consider the classical minisuperspace model describing a closed, homogeneous and isotropic Universe, with a positive cosmological constant. Upon canonical quantization, the infinite number of possible operator orderings in the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-29 Eftychios Kaimakkamis , Hervé Partouche , Karunava Sil , Nicolaos Toumbas

We study the classical and quantum cosmology of a $(4+d)$-dimensional spacetime minimally coupled to a scalar field and present exact solutions for the resulting field equations for the case where the universe is spatially flat. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Jalalzadeh , F. Ahmadi , H. R. Sepangi

We analyze the dynamics of a Taub cosmological model in the presence of a massless minimally coupled scalar field and a cosmological constant, in the limit when both the Universe volume and the scalar field live in a quasi-classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-05 Mariaveronica De Angelis , Giovanni Montani

We explore the consequences of allowing non-Hermitian structures in quantum cosmology by extending the Wheeler DeWitt framework beyond strictly Hermitian dynamics. Using a controlled semiclassical reduction, we show how anti Hermitian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Oem Trivedi , Alfredo Gurrola

In the present work, we study the quantum cosmology description of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model in the presence of a stiff matter perfect fluid and a negative cosmological constant. We work in the Schutz's variational formalism and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Oliveira-Neto , G. A. Monerat , E. V. Corrêa Silva , C. Neves , L. G. Ferreira

We present a theoretical analysis of the WDW approach to quantum cosmology extended to gravity theories with torsion. The dynamics of the FLRW universe is formulated as a classical Hamiltonian problem of point particle mechanics. Unlike in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch , Juergen Struckmeier

In the analysis of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we have simplified the Hamiltonian constraint of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation using the coordinate transformation. The coordinate is choose such that metric becomes diagonal and as Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-06-25 Shintaro Sawayama

This work deals with chameleon field cosmology (a scalar field nonminimally coupled to cold dark matter) in the background of flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) space-time. Both classical and quantum cosmology have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Roshni Bhaumik , Sourav Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

A quantum cosmological model with radiation and a dilaton scalar field is analysed. The Wheeler-deWitt equation in the mini-superspace induces a Schr\"odinger equation, which can be solved. An explicit wavepacket is constructed for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 J. C. Fabris , F. T. Falciano , P. Vargas Moniz , J. Marto , N. Pinto-Neto

In this work we shall explore the effects of non commutativity in fractional classical and quantum schemes using the flat Friedmmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological model coupled to a scalar field in the K-essence formalism. In previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-04 J. Socorro , J. Juan Rosales , Leonel Toledo-Sesma

This paper discusses the problem of inflation in the context of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cosmology. We show how, after a simple change of variables, to quantize the problem in a way which parallels the classical discussion. The result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marvin Weinstein , Ratindranath Akhoury