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Some bouncing models are investigated in the framework of an extended theory of gravity. The extended gravity model is a simple extension of the General Relativity where an additional matter geometry coupling is introduced to account for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-10 S K Tripathy , B Mishra , Saibal Ray , Rikpratik Sengupta

Cosmological models with inflation and those with bounce have their own strengths and weaknesses. Here we construct a model in which a phase of bounce is followed by a viable inflationary phase. This incorporates several advantages of both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Manjeet Kaur , Debottam Nandi , Debajyoti Choudhury , T. R. Seshadri

This paper is devoted to examining cosmological bouncing scenarios in the framework of the recently proposed symmetric teleparallel gravity (or $f(Q)$ gravity), where the non-metricity scalar $Q$ represents the gravitational interaction. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 M. Koussour , N. Myrzakulov

We study a contracting universe composed of cold dark matter and radiation, and with a positive cosmological constant. As is well known from standard cosmological perturbation theory, under the assumption of initial quantum vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Edward Wilson-Ewing

In this work we use the Loop Quantum Cosmology modified scalar-tensor reconstruction techniques in order to investigate how bouncing and inflationary cosmologies can be realized. With regard to the inflationary cosmologies, we shall be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 K. Kleidis , V. K. Oikonomou

We investigate a bounce realization in the framework of higher order curvature in $ f(R,T) $ modified theory of gravity. We perform a detailed analysis of the cosmological parameters to explain the contraction phase, the bounce phase, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 J. K. Singh , Shaily , Akanksha Singh , Aroonkumar Beesham , Hamid Shabani

In this paper, we have presented a bouncing cosmological model of the Universe in an extended theory of gravity. The dynamical behaviour of the model obtained from the flat FLRW space-time along with the violation of null energy condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-22 A. S. Agrawal , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , B. Mishra , S. K. Tripathy

The matter bounce scenario allows for a sizable parameter space where cosmological fluctuations originally exited the Hubble radius when the background energy density was small. In this scenario and its extended versions, the low energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 Yi-Fu Cai , Francis Duplessis , Damien A. Easson , Dong-Gang Wang

We study the effects of the inclusion of fluids In bounce scenarios driven by an exponential potential scalar field. Most solutions exhibit well known tracking behavior between the fluids and the scalar field. This tracking behavior can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Francisco Bento Lustosa , Nelson Pinto-Neto

We have investigated some bouncing models in the framework of an extended gravity theory where the usual Ricci scalar in the gravitational action is replaced by a sum of the Ricci scalar and a term proportional to the trace of the energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-24 Sunil Kumar Tripathy , Rakesh Kumar Khuntia , Priyabrata Parida

We investigate cosmological scenarios containing one canonical scalar field with an exponential potential in the context of bouncing models, where the bounce happens due to quantum cosmological effects. The only possible bouncing solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-01 Anna Paula Bacalhau , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Sandro Dias Pinto Vitenti

It has recently been realized that many theories of physics beyond the Standard Model give rise to cosmological histories exhibiting extended epochs of cosmological stasis. During such epochs, the abundances of different energy components…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-17 Keith R. Dienes , Lucien Heurtier , Fei Huang , Tim M. P. Tait , Brooks Thomas

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 propose a new cosmological paradigm in which our observed expanding phase is originated from an initially large contracting Universe that subsequently experienced a bounce. This category of models, being geodesically complete, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 Patrick Peter , Nelson Pinto-Neto

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

At the level of heuristic effective dynamics, we investigate the cosmological inflation with holonomy corrections of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) in the $k=0$ Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model with a single inflaton field subject to a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Dah-Wei Chiou , Kai Liu

Bouncing cosmologies, while offering a compelling alternative to inflationary models, face challenges from the growth of vector perturbations during the contracting phase. While linear vector instabilities can be avoided with specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Mian Zhu , Chao Chen

We present a bounce universe in modified $f(Q,C)$ gravity considering linear as well as exponential form of gravity. Bounce cosmological models are introduced to remove the singularity problem of the early universe. A new quadratic boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Bhaswati Mandal , B. C. Paul

This study explores the bouncing solutions within the framework of modified $f(Q, L_m)$ gravity. We examine four prominent bouncing models, the symmetric bounce, super bounce, oscillatory bounce, and matter bounce, each of which has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 S. A. Kadam , V. A. Kshirsagar , Santosh Kumar Yadav

Matter and quasi-matter bounce scenarios are studied for an F(R) gravity model with holonomy corrections and a Lagrange multiplier, with a scale factor $a(t) = \left(a_0t^2 + 1 \right)^n$, where the Hubble parameter squared has a linear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Emilio Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , Tanmoy Paul