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We study the dynamics of gauge-invariant scalar perturbations in cosmological scenarios with a modified Friedmann equation, such as quantum gravity bouncing cosmologies. We work within a separate universe approximation which captures…

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Based on the conventional metric tensor and driven by a nearly constant energy density, cosmic inflation, characterized by a remarkably accelerated expansion, was proposed as an early epoch in the Universe. The energy density is typically…

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The exact solutions in the standard inflationary model based on the self-interacting scalar field minimally coupled to gravity are considered. The shape's freedom of the self-interacting potential $V(\phi)$ is postulated to obtain a new set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 S. V. Chervon , V. M. Zhuravlev , V. K. Shchigolev

We construct and study a simple noncommutative scheme (theta-deformation) for the effective Loop Quantum Cosmology of the flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker model in the presence of a homogeneous scalar field $\phi$ with a potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Luis Rey Díaz-Barrón , Abraham Espinoza-García , S. Pérez-Payán , J. Socorro

We study FLRW cosmology, taking into account quantum gravitational corrections in the formalism of the exact renormalization group flow of the effective action for gravity. We calculate the quantum corrected scale factor, energy density,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Rituparna Mandal , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Amitabha Lahiri

In this article, we investigate scalar field cosmology in the coincident $f(Q)$ gravity formalism. We calculate the motion equations of $f(Q)$ gravity under the flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker background in the presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-12 Sayantan Ghosh , Raja Solanki , P. K. Sahoo

It is shown that the inflationary era in early universe is realized due to the effect of backreaction of quantized matter fields. In fact we start by quantizing a free scalar field in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-time, and the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Yoshinobu Habara , Hikaru Kawai , Masao Ninomiya

We investigate the one-loop effective action for a test scalar field in a general Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background, specifically focusing on quantum corrections up to the second order in the interaction strength. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 Will Cerne , Teruaki Suyama

The quantisation of scalar field theory and Einstein gravity is investigated using a fully covariant background field formalism, including Vilkovisky-DeWitt corrections. The one-loop divergences, which are relevant for the consistency of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-17 Ian G. Moss

My project computed the one loop fermion self-energy for massless Dirac + Einstein in the presence of a locally de Sitter background. I employed dimensional regularization and obtain a fully renormalized result by absorbing all divergences…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Pei Miao

The $q$-theory approach to the cosmological constant problem is reconsidered. The new observation is that the effective classical $q$-theory gets modified due to the backreaction of quantum-mechanical particle production by spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-13 F. R. Klinkhamer , G. E. Volovik

The classical and quantum dynamics of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe with massless scalar and massive fermion matter field as a source is discussed in the framework of the Dirac generalized Hamiltonian formalism. The Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Khvedelidze , Yu. G. Palii

We study the quantum-gravitational corrections to the power spectrum of a gauge-invariant inflationary scalar perturbations in a closed model of a universe. We consider canonical quantum gravity as an approach to quantizing gravity. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Tatevik Vardanyan , Claus Kiefer

Quantum gravitational back-reaction offers the potential of simultaneously resolving the problem of the cosmological constant and providing a natural model of inflation in which scalars play no special role. In this model inflation begins…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. P. Woodard

In the path integral formulation of the reduced phase space Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), we propose a new approach to allow the spatial cubic lattice (graph) to change dynamically in the physical time evolution. The equations of motion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Muxin Han , Hongguang Liu

Taking into account the effect of self-interaction, the dynamics of the quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field with $\lambda\phi^4$ potential is studied in detail. We find that the self interaction efficiently drives the initial pure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Takahiro Tanaka , Masa-aki Sakagami

We develop a new semiclassical approach, which starts with the density matrix given by the Euclidean time path integral with fixed coinciding endpoints, and proceed by identifying classical (minimal Euclidean action) path, to be referred to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-01 M. A. Escobar-Ruiz , E. Shuryak , A. V. Turbiner

The alternative dynamics of loop quantum cosmology is examined by the path integral formulation. We consider the spatially flat FRW models with a massless scalar field, where the alternative quantization inherit more features from full loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Li Qin , Guo Deng , Yongge Ma

We consider a quantum scalar field on an arbitrary gravitational background. We obtain the effective {\it in-in} equations for the gravitational fields using a covariant and non-local approximation for the effective action proposed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 D. A. R. Dalvit , F. D. Mazzitelli

We study the effect of noncommutative spacetime geometry on one-loop corrections to the primordial curvature two-point function, arising from various forms of massless spectator matter fields interacting gravitationally with the inflaton.…

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