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The evolutions of the flat FLRW universe and its linear perturbations are studied systematically in the dressed metric approach of LQC. When it is dominated by the kinetic energy of the inflaton at the quantum bounce, the evolution of the…

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This work is an analytical study of the main differences between classical inflationary effects of a fast-roll regime and imprints of hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) on the primordial power spectrum. Effective LQC solutions of…

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By incorporating quantum aspects of gravity, Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) provides a self-consistent extension of the inflationary scenario, allowing for modifications in the primordial inflationary power spectrum with respect to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Micol Benetti , Leila Graef , Rudnei O. Ramos

In the recent years the quantization methods of Loop Quantum Gravity have been successfully applied to the homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-times. The resulting theory, called Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), resolves…

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We develop a consistent analytic approach to determine the conditions under which slow roll inflation can arise when the inflaton is the same scalar field that is responsible for the bounce in Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). We find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-04 Anshuman Bhardwaj , Edmund J. Copeland , Jorma Louko

Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) predicts a nonsingular evolution of the universe through a bounce in the high energy region. We show that this is always true in tachyon matter LQC. Different from the classical Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hua-Hui Xiong , Jian-Yang Zhu

Loop Quantum Gravity (L.Q.G.) is one of the two most promising tentative theory for a quantum description of gravity. When applied to the entire universe, the so-called Loop Quantum Cosmology (L.Q.C.) framework offers microscopical models…

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We give a detailed presentation of a recently proposed mechanism of generating the energy scale of inflation by loop effects in quantum cosmology. We discuss the quantum origin of the early inflationary Universe from the no-boundary and…

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In this study, we explore the pre-inflationary dynamics of the universe using a noncommutative extension of the mLQC-I framework. By incorporating a scalar field potential, we show that key features of Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Abolhassan Mohammadi

In this Letter, we study analytically the evolutions of the flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe and its linear perturbations in the framework of {\em the dressed metric approach} in loop quantum cosmology (LQC).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-21 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Klaus Kirsten , Gerald Cleaver , Qin Sheng

We discuss how initial conditions for cosmological evolution can be defined in Loop Quantum Cosmology with massive scalar field and how the presence of the bounce influences the probability of inflation in this theory, compared with General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-15 Suzana Bedić , Gregory Vereshchagin

The quantum gravitational scale of inflation is calculated by finding a sharp probability peak in the distribution function of chaotic inflationary cosmologies driven by a scalar field with large negative constant $\xi$ of nonminimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

The big bang singularity could be understood as a breakdown of Einstein's General Relativity at very high energies. Adopting this viewpoint, other theories, that implement Einstein Cosmology at high energies, might solve the problem of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Jaume Amorós , Jaume de Haro , Sergei D. Odintsov

In the context of loop quantum cosmology, we consider an inflationary era driven by a canonical scalar field and occurring in the semiclassical regime, where spacetime is a continuum but quantum gravitational effects are important. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gianluca Calcagni , Marina Cortes

The inflationary and pre-inflationary evolution of scalar modes of cosmological perturbations in a closed universe is analyzed for a loop quantum cosmology model with an inflationary regime consistent with the constraints on inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Lucas M. V. Montese , Nelson Yokomizo

Inflationary models of the early universe provide a natural mechanism for the formation of large scale structure. This success brings to forefront the question of naturalness: Does a sufficiently long slow roll inflation occur generically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Abhay Ashtekar , David Sloan

We argue that the anomalous power asymmetry observed in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) may have originated in a cosmic bounce preceding inflation. In loop quantum cosmology (LQC) the big bang singularity is generically replaced by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Ivan Agullo

A self-consistent pre-inflationary extension of the inflationary scenario with the Starobinsky potential, favored by Planck data, is studied using techniques from loop quantum cosmology (LQC). The results are compared with the quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Béatrice Bonga , Brajesh Gupt

In loop quantum gravity, modifications to the geometrical density cause a self-interacting scalar field to accelerate away from a minimum of its potential. In principle, this mechanism can generate the conditions that subsequently lead to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Bojowald , James E. Lidsey , David J. Mulryne , Parampreet Singh , Reza Tavakol

We investigate the scalar mode of perturbation of super inflation in the version of loop quantum cosmology in which the gauge invariant holonomy corrections are considered. Given a background solution, we calculate the power spectrum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Xiao-Jun Yue , Jian-Yang Zhu