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Decaying vacuum cosmological models evolving smoothly between two extreme (very early and late time) de Sitter phases are capable to solve or at least to alleviate some cosmological puzzles, among them: (i) the singularity, (ii) horizon,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-26 G. J. M. Zilioti , R. C. Santos , J. A. S. Lima

We give here a list of exact classical solutions of a large class of weakly nonlocal theories of gravity, which are unitary and super-renormalizable (or finite) at quantum level. It is explicitly shown that flat and Ricci-flat spacetimes as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Yao-Dong Li , Leonardo Modesto , Leslaw Rachwal

Within the context of modified gravity and dark energy scenarios of the accelerating universe, we study the stability of de Sitter space with respect to inhomogeneous perturbations using a gauge-independent formalism. In modified gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Valerio Faraoni

We discuss non-perturbative dynamics of massive gravity in de Sitter space via gravitational Higgs mechanism. We argue that enhanced local symmetry and null (ghost) state at (below) the perturbative Higuchi bound are mere artifacts of not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 Zurab Kakushadze

We will present the way to derive a de Sitter inflationary solution within the so-called Starobinsky-Bel-Robinson gravity. Then, we will show by using the dynamical system method whether the obtained solution is stable or not. According to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Tuan Q. Do

We present exact non-singular bounce solutions of general relativity in the presence of a positive cosmological constant and an electromagnetic field, without any exotic matter. The solutions are distinguished by being spatially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Andres Anabalon , Sebastian F. Bramberger , Jean-Luc Lehners

An exact de Sitter solution of scalar-tensor gravity is found, in which the non-minimal coupling scalar is rolling along a non-constant potential. Based on this solution, a dust-filled FRW universe is explored in frame of scalar-tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-22 Hongsheng Zhang , Xin-Zhou Li

The behaviour of stationary gravitational perturbations is studied for generalised static black holes in spacetimes of greater than three dimensions, using the formulation developed by the present author and Ishibashi. For the case in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hideo Kodama

We prove the nonlinear stability of the cosmological region of Kerr de Sitter spacetimes. More precisely, we show that solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations with positive cosmological constant arising from data on a cylinder that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Grigorios Fournodavlos , Volker Schlue

We discuss the instabilities appearing in the cosmological model with a quasi de Sitter phase following from a fourth-order gravity theory. Both the classical equation as well as the quantization in form of a Wheeler - De Witt equation are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Kasper , S. Kluske , M. Rainer , S. Reuter , H. -J. Schmidt

We reconcile seemingly conflicting statements in the literature about the behavior of cosmological solutions in modified theories of gravity where the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian for gravity is modified by the addition of a function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacy Sawicki , Wayne Hu

In this paper, static electrically charged black hole solutions with cosmological constant are investigated in an Einstein-Hilbert theory of gravity with additional quadratic curvature terms. Beside the analytic Schwarzschild (Anti-) de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-18 Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , A. B. Pavan , E. Abdalla

The accelerated expansion of the universe poses a significant challenge to General Relativity. Non-local modifications to gravity have emerged as a compelling class of theories to address this dark energy puzzle. Building upon earlier…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Susobhan Mandal , S. Shankaranarayanan

We study the problem of relaxing a large cosmological constant in the astrophysical domain through a dynamical mechanism based on a modified action of gravity previously considered by us at the cosmological level. We solve the model in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-09 Florian Bauer , Joan Sola , Hrvoje Stefancic

We develop the $n$-dimensional cosmology for $f(\mathcal{G})$ gravity, where $\mathcal{G}$ is the \emph{Gauss-Bonnet} topological invariant. Specifically, by the so-called Noether Symmetry Approach, we select $f(\mathcal{G})\simeq…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-29 Francesco Bajardi , Salvatore Capozziello

Dynamical systems methods are used to investigate cosmological model with non-minimally coupled scalar field. Existence of an asymptotically unstable de Sitter state distinguishes values of the non-minimal coupling constant parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-31 Orest Hrycyna

In three dimensions, Kerr-de Sitter spacetime as a solution of Einstein gravity with positive cosmological constant has a single cosmological horizon. The flat-space limit (zero cosmological constant limit) of this spacetime is well-defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-17 Reza Fareghbal , Vahid Reza Shajiee

We determine the most general solution of the five-dimensional vacuum Einstein equation, allowing for a cosmological constant, with (i) a Weyl tensor that is type II or more special in the classification of Coley et al., (ii) a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-14 Gabriel Bernardi de Freitas , Mahdi Godazgar , Harvey S. Reall

It is well known that non-local theories of gravity have been a flourish arena of studies for many reasons, for instance, the UV incompleteness of General Relativity (GR). In this paper we check the consistency of ST-homogeneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-16 J. R. Nascimento , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio

In this paper, a general FRW cosmological model has been constructed in $f(R,T)$ gravity reconstruction with variable cosmological constant. A number of solutions to the field equations has been generated by utilizing a form for the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Nasr Ahmed , Sultan Z. Alamri