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Within conventional big bang cosmology, it has proven to be very difficult to understand why today's cosmological constant is so small. In this paper, we show that a cyclic model of the universe can naturally incorporate a dynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

It is often the case that scalar fields are produced in the early Universe in the form of coherent oscillation. These scalar fields may have huge abundances and affect the evolution of the Universe. In particular, if the lifetime is long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-20 Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Kazunori Nakayama

The universe time-asymmetry is essentially produced by its low-entropy unstable initial state. Using quanlitative arguments, Paul Davies has demonstrated that the universe expansion may diminish the entropy gap, therefore explaining its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Roberto Aquilano , Mario Castagnino

In this paper we discuss the properties of the quasi-steady state cosmological model (QSSC) developed in 1993 in its role as a cyclic model of the universe driven by a negative energy scalar field. We discuss the origin of such a scalar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jayant V. Narlikar , Geoffrey Burbidge , R. G. Vishwakarma

\emph{Probabilistic hysteresis} is a manifestation of irreversibility in a small, isolated classical system [Sci. Rep. 9, 14169]: after a slow cyclic sweep of a control parameter, the probability that a microcanonical ensemble returns to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Ralf Bürkle , James R. Anglin

We discuss a cyclic cosmology in which the visible universe, or introverse, is all that is accessible to an observer while the extroverse represents the total spacetime originating from the time when the dark energy began to dominate. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-04 Paul H. Frampton

We address how to construct an infinitely cyclic universe model. A major consideration is to make the entropy cyclic which requires the entropy to be reset to zero in each cycle expansion to turnaround, to contraction, to bounce, etc. Here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-06 Paul Howard Frampton

We exhibit a resonance mechanism of amplification of density perturbations in inflationary mo-dels, using a minimal set of ingredients (an effective cosmological constant, a scalar field minimally coupled to the gravitational field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 H. P. de Oliveira , I. Damiao Soares

Based on concepts drawn from the ekpyrotic scenario and M-theory, we elaborate our recent proposal of a cyclic model of the Universe. In this model, the Universe undergoes an endless sequence of cosmic epochs which begin with the Universe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

A mildly inhomogeneous universe with a cosmological constant may look like it contains evolving dark energy. We show that could be the case by modelling the inhomogeneities and their effects in three different ways: as clumped matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Yonadav Barry Ginat , Pedro G. Ferreira

We track the evolution of entropy and black holes in a cyclic universe that undergoes repeated intervals of expansion followed by slow contraction and a smooth (non-singular) bounce. In this kind of cyclic scenario, there is no big crunch…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-09 Anna Ijjas , Paul J. Steinhardt

A mathematical model of the Universe evolution, based on asymmetric doublet of classical and phantom dcalar Higgs fields with a kinetic connection between the components, has been constructed and studied. A detailed qualitative analysis was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Yu. G. Ignat'ev , I. A. Kokh

It is shown that any cosmological anisotropic model produces supersymmetric theories for both massless scalar and electromagnetic fields. This supersymmetric theory is the time-domain analogue of a supersymmetric quantum mechanical theory.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-09 Felipe A. Asenjo , Sergio A. Hojman

Scalar cosmological perturbations with nearly flat power spectrum may originate from perturbations of the phase of a scalar field conformally coupled to gravity and rolling down negative quartic potential. We consider a version of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-10 M. Libanov , S. Ramazanov , V. Rubakov

Experimental systems with a first order phase transition will often exhibit hysteresis when out of equilibrium. If defects are present, the hysteresis loop can have different shapes: with small disorder the hysteresis loop has a macroscopic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Olga Perkovic , Karin A. Dahmen , James P. Sethna

As discussed in a number of recent papers, cosmological stasis is a phenomenon wherein the abundances of multiple cosmological energy components with different equations of state remain constant for an extended period despite the expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Keith R. Dienes , Lucien Heurtier , Daniel Hoover , Fei Huang , Anna Paulsen , Brooks Thomas

In [1], KKLT give a mechanism to generate de Sitter vacua in string theory. And the scenario, \emph{Landscape}, is suggested to explain the problem of the cosmological constant. In this paper, adopting a simple potential describing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Cheng-Yi Sun , De-Hai Zhang

We introduce "anamorphic" cosmology, an approach for explaining the smoothness and flatness of the universe on large scales and the generation of a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of adiabatic density perturbations. The defining feature is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-02 Anna Ijjas , Paul J. Steinhardt

An occurrence of an oscillating Universe is showed using an inhomogeneous equation of state for dark energy fluid. The Hubble parameter described presents a periodic behavior such that early and late time acceleration are unified under the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Diego Sáez-Gómez

We show that a well-studied pseudo-Hermitian field theory composed of two complex scalar fields can generate accelerated cosmological expansion through a novel mechanism. The dynamics is unique to the pseudo-Hermitian field theory, and it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-24 Edmund J. Copeland , Andrei Lazanu , Peter Millington , Esra Sablevice