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We show that, in a model of modified gravity based on the spectral action functional, there is a nontrivial coupling between cosmic topology and inflation, in the sense that the shape of the possible slow-roll inflation potentials obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Matilde Marcolli , Elena Pierpaoli , Kevin Teh

In this paper we investigate the asymptotic dynamics of inflationary cosmological models that are based in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Our main aim is to explore the global structure of the phase space in the framework of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Israel Quiros , Tame Gonzalez , Roberto De Arcia , Ricardo García-Salcedo , Ulises Nucamendi , Joel F. Saavedra

In the context of nonminimally coupled $f(R)$ gravity theories, we study early inflation driven by a nonlinear monopole magnetic field which is nonminimally coupled to curvature. In order to isolate the effects of the nonminimal coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-05 Giovanni Otalora , Ali Övgün , Joel Saavedra , Nelson Videla

Inflationary scenarios motivated by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) where five scalar fields are non-minimally coupled to gravity are considered. The potential of the model and the function of non-minimal coupling are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-01 M. N. Dubinin , E. Yu. Petrova , E. O. Pozdeeva , S. Yu. Vernov

We consider, in Palatini formalism, a modified gravity of which the scalar field derivative couples to Einstein tensor. In this scenario, Ricci scalar, Ricci tensor and Einstein tensor are functions of connection field. As a result, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-20 Narakorn Kaewkhao , Burin Gumjudpai

We discuss a new scenario for early cosmology, when inflationary de Sitter phase dynamically emergent. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a (conjectured) strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Using the dS/QFT correspondence in the context of inflation allows for the study of interesting, otherwise inaccessible physics. In particular, by studying inflation via its dual field theory at the boundary of the de Sitter space, it may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 Mafalda Dias

We explore dynamics of cosmological models with a nonminimally coupled scalar field evolving on a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker background. We consider cosmological models including the Hilbert-Einstein curvature term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-01 Maria A. Skugoreva , Alexey V. Toporensky , Sergey Yu. Vernov

In this work we investigate the asymptotic cosmological dynamics of a modified gravity model based on the $f(R,T^\phi)$ theory, where $R$ denotes the Ricci scalar and $T^\phi$ is the trace of the stress-energy tensor of a scalar field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Joaquin Estevez-Delgado , Roberto De Arcia , Gabino Estevez-Delgado , Israel Quiros

We study nonlinear cosmological perturbations and their possible non-Gaussian character in an extended non-minimal inflation where gravity is coupled non-minimally to both the scalar field and its derivatives. By expansion of the action up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-09 Raheleh Shojaee , Kourosh Nozari , Farhad Darabi

The evolution of a scalar field is explored taking into account the presence of a background fluid in a positively curved Universe in the framework of loop quantum cosmology. Though the mechanism that provides the initial conditions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. J. Nunes

We discuss a new scenario for early cosmology when the inflationary de Sitter phase emerges dynamically. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a strongly coupled QCD- like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-26 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

In this work, we investigated several inflationary scenarios within the framework of modified $f(Q,\phi)$ gravity with a nonminimal coupling between the scalar field and the nonmetricity scalar. We focused on the impact of the coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 F. Mavoa , M. B. Barry , R. Ndioukane , M. G. Ganiou , F. K. Ahloui

We discuss cosmological model with homogeneous and isotropic Yang-Mills field non-minimally coupled to gravity through an effective mass term. In this model conformal symmetry is violated which leads to possibility of inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-24 Evgeny A. Davydov , Dmitry V. Gal'tsov

We suggest a new type of hill-top inflation originating from the initial conditions in the form of the microcanonical density matrix for the cosmological model with a large number of quantum fields conformally coupled to gravity. Initial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik , D. V. Nesterov

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

Single field inflationary models are investigated within Palatini quadratic gravity represented by $R+\alpha R^2$ along with a non-minimal coupling of the form $f(\phi) R$ between the inflaton field $\phi$ and the gravity. The treatment is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Mahmoud AlHallak

In this work we aim to revive the interest for non-minimal derivative coupling theories of gravity, in light of the GW170817 event. These theories include a string motivated non-minimal kinetic term for the scalar field of the form $\sim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 V. K. Oikonomou

We investigate cosmological evolution in models where the effective potential V(\phi) may become negative for some values of the field \phi. Phase portraits of such theories in space of variables (\phi,\dot\phi,H) have several qualitatively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Gary Felder , Andrei Frolov , Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde

Dynamical systems methods are used to investigate dynamics of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model with the non-minimally coupled scalar field and a potential function. Performed analysis distinguishes the value of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-07 Orest Hrycyna