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We investigate the imprints on the angular power spectra of cosmological perturbations of a pre-inflationary bounce phase, as described by the hybrid and dressed metric approaches to loop quantum cosmology. For this purpose, we derive a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Almudena Guillén , Kai Langer , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Niklas Rodenbücher , Antonio Vicente-Becerril

In this paper, we model the bounce phase, stability, and the reconstruction of the universe by non-minimal kinetic coupling. In the process, we obtained importance information about the energy density and the matter pressure of the universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Alireza Amani , A. S. Kubeka , E. Mahichi

We consider a bouncing Universe model which explains the flatness of the primordial scalar spectrum via complex scalar field that rolls down its negative quartic potential and dominates in the Universe. We show that in this model, there…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sergey Mironov

The spectrum and amplitude of the stochastic background of relic gravitons produced in a bouncing universe is calculated. The matter content of the model consists of dust and radiation fluids, and the bounce occurs due to quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Dennis Bessada , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Beatriz B. Siffert , Oswaldo D. Miranda

We present a full investigation of scalar perturbations in a rather generic model for a regular bouncing universe, where the bounce is triggered by an effective perfect fluid with negative energy density. Long before and after the bounce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-09 V. Bozza , G. Veneziano

The early Cosmology driven by a single scalar field, both massless and massive, in the context of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity, is explored. We show the existence of nonsingular solutions of bouncing and loitering type (depending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-15 David Benisty , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

An oscillating universe cycles through a series of expansions and contractions. We propose a model in which ``phantom'' energy with $p < -\rho$ grows rapidly and dominates the late-time expanding phase. The universe's energy density is so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Matthew G. Brown , Katherine Freese , William H. Kinney

An extremely fast exponential expansion of the Universe is typical for the stable version of the inflationary model, based on the anomaly-induced action of gravity. The total amount of exponential $e$-folds could be very large, before the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-05 Wagno Cesar e Silva , Ilya L. Shapiro

A `bouncing' cosmological model is proposed in the context of a Weyl-invariant scalar-tensor (WIST) theory of gravity. In addition to being Weyl-invariant the theory is U(1)-symmetric and has a conserved global charge. The entire cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-17 Meir Shimon

We analyze the evolution of cosmological perturbations in the cyclic model, paying particular attention to their behavior and interplay over multiple cycles. Our key results are: (1) galaxies and large scale structure present in one cycle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Joel K. Erickson , Steven Gratton , Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

Using non-linear equation of state for pressure and density energy, we show that the universe is began with a smooth and isotropic bounce. We use a non-linear equation of state which is a binary mixture of perfect fluid and dark energy. We…

General Physics · Physics 2010-10-13 Kh. Saaidi , S. Ziaee

We show that the f(T) gravitational paradigm, in which gravity is described by an arbitrary function of the torsion scalar, can provide a mechanism for realizing bouncing cosmologies, thereby avoiding the Big Bang singularity. After…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-07 Yi-Fu Cai , Shih-Hung Chen , James B. Dent , Sourish Dutta , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Ekpyrotic models and their cyclic extensions solve the standard cosmological flatness, horizon and homogeneity puzzles by postulating a slowly contracting phase of the universe prior to the big bang. This ekpyrotic phase also manages to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Jean-Luc Lehners

In this Letter, we describe how a spectrum of entropic perturbations generated during a period of slow contraction can source a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of curvature perturbations on length scales larger than the Hubble radius during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Anna Ijjas , Roman Kolevatov

Bouncing non-singular isotropic cosmological solutions are investigated in a simple model of scalar-tensor gravity. New families of such solutions are found and their properties are presented and analyzed using an effective potential as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-28 D. Polarski , A. A. Starobinsky , Y. Verbin

An oscillating universe cycles through a series of expansions and contractions. We propose a model in which ``phantom'' energy with a supernegative pressure ($p < - \rho$) grows rapidly and dominates the late-time expanding phase. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-29 Katherine Freese , Matthew G. Brown , William H. Kinney

We provide a cosmological implementation of the evolutionary quantum gravity, describing an isotropic Universe, in the presence of a negative cosmological constant and a massive (preinflationary) scalar field. We demonstrate that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Cianfrani , Giovanni Montani , Fabrizio Pittorino

The no-boundary proposal provides a compelling theory for the initial conditions of our universe. We study the implications of such initial conditions for ekpyrotic and cyclic cosmologies. These cosmologies allow for the existence of a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Lorenzo Battarra , Jean-Luc Lehners

It was recently realized that a model constructed from a Lee-Wick type scalar field theory yields, at the level of homogeneous and isotropic background cosmology, a bouncing cosmology. However, bouncing cosmologies induced by pressure-less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Johanna Karouby , Taotao Qiu , Robert Brandenberger

A bouncing universe with a long period of contraction during which the average density is pressureless (the same equation of state as matter) as cosmologically observable scales exit the Hubble horizon has been proposed as an explanation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Aaron M. Levy