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Despite the remarkable success of the standard LambdaCDM model in describing the evolution of the universe, several unresolved issues remain, such as the true nature of dark energy, fine-tuning problems, and the persistent Hubble tension.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-15 Mahendra Goray , Bijan Saha

Non-gravitational interaction between dark matter and dark energy has been considered in a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe. The interaction rate is assumed to be linear in the energy densities of dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-07 Supriya Pan , Jaume de Haro , Weiqiang Yang , Jaume Amorós

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity that embrace conformal coupling to the scalar curvature are the focal point of cosmology on discussions of inflation and late-time accelerating universe. Although there exists a stringent nucleo-synthesis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-26 M. Yoshimura

Ever since the first observations that we are living in an accelerating universe, it has been asked what dark energy is. There are various explanations all of which with have various draw backs or inconsistencies. Here we show that using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-02 Christian G. Boehmer , James Burnett

Here we consider a scenario in which dark energy is associated with the apparent area of a surface in the early universe. In order to resemble the cosmological constant at late times, this hypothetical reference scale should maintain an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Fergus Simpson

In the Horndeski's most general scalar-tensor theories the equations of scalar density perturbations are derived in the presence of non-relativistic matter minimally coupled to gravity. Under a quasi-static approximation on sub-horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Antonio De Felice , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Shinji Tsujikawa

We have found that the conformally coupled induced gravity can be an infrared fixed point of induced gravity with Yukawa couplings with matter. The late time cosmology with a uniform mean matter distribution can be described by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-10 Yongsung Yoon

The article is a natural continuation of our paper {\em Quantum scalar field in FRW Universe with constant electromagnetic background}, Int. J. Mod. Phys. {\bf A12}, 4837 (1997). We generalize the latter consideration to the case of massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , A. E. Goncalves

The acceleration of the expansion of the universe, ascribed to a dark energy, is one of the most intriguing discoveries in science. In addition to precise, systematics controlled data, clear, robust interpretation of the observations is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric V. Linder

We investigate a phenomenological non-gravitational coupling between dark energy and dark matter, where the interaction in the dark sector is parameterized as an energy transfer either from dark matter to dark energy or the opposite. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-11 Riccardo Murgia , Stefano Gariazzo , Nicolao Fornengo

The connection between $f(R)$ theories of gravity and scalar-tensor models with a "physical" metric coupled to the scalar field is well known. In this work, we pursue the equivalence between a suitable scalar theory and a model that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-01 O. Bertolami , J. Páramos

In this work we investigate the anisotropic conformal structure of the gravitational field incorporating dark gravity in a generalized Lagrange geometric framework on the Lorentz tangent bundle and we present two applications; the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Christos Savvopoulos , Panayiotis Stavrinos

We build upon previous investigation of the one-dimensional conformal symmetry of the Friedman-Lema\^ itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology of a free scalar field and make it explicit through a reformulation of the theory at the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Jibril Ben Achour , Etera R. Livine

Exploring the diversity of dark energy dynamics, we discover a calibration relation, a uniform stretching of the amplitude of the equation of state time variation with scale factor. This defines homogeneous families of dark energy physics.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roland de Putter , Eric V. Linder

An exact solution is obtained for a massive scalar field conformally coupled with the curvature in a cosmological model with the scale factor $a(t) = a_0 / |t|$, corresponding to background matter with the equation of state $ p = - 5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Yu. V. Pavlov

We investigate some FLRW cosmological models in the context of Metric-Affine $F(R,Q)$ gravity, as proposed in [arXiv:1205.52666]. Here, $R$ and $Q$ are the curvature and nonmetricity scalars using non-special connections, respectively. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-16 Dinesh Chandra Maurya , K. Yesmakhanova , R. Myrzakulov , G. Nugmanova

The new spinor-unit field representation of the electromagnetism \cite{Nash2010} (with quark and lepton sources) is integrated via minimal coupling with standard Einstein gravitation, to formulate a Lagrangian model of the very early…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Patrick L. Nash

We study spinors in the framework of general relativity, starting from the Dirac field Lagrangian in the approximation of weak gravity. We focus on how fermions couple to gravity through the spin connection, and we analyze these couplings…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Elisa Varani

A generic prediction of the standard cosmology, based on general relativity (GR), dark matter and the cosmological constant (and more generally, smooth dark energy), is that, the two gravitational potentials describing the spatial and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-18 Pengjie Zhang , Rachel Bean , Michele Liguori , Scott Dodelson

We propose an additional term in the classical gravitational force law, which is repelling in nature, and which may solve the dark matter problem. As an inverse cube field interaction, it operates over 4 real spatial dimensions and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Terry Matilsky