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The mechanism of the initial inflationary scenario of the universe and of its late-time acceleration can be described by assuming the existence of some gravitationally coupled scalar fields $\phi $, with the inflaton field generating…

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Models of inflationary cosmology admit a choice of the metric for which the geometry of homogeneous isotropic solutions becomes flat Minkowski space in the infinite past. In this primordial flat frame all mass scales vanish in the infinite…

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Inflation of cosmic gauge and global strings is investigated by numerically solving the combined Einstein and field equations. Above some critical symmetry-breaking scales, the strings undergo inflation along the radial direction as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Inyong Cho

In this paper, we apply Osgood's criterion from the theory of ordinary differential equations to detect finite-time singularities in a spatially flat FLRW universe in the context of a perfect fluid, a perfect fluid with bulk viscosity, and…

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We discuss inflationary solutions of the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a complex field in a five dimensional spacetime with a compact $x^5$-dimension. As a new feature, the scalar field contains a dependence on the extra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. J. van der Bij , Eugen Radu

We study a generality of an inflationary scenario by integrating the Einstein equations numerically in a plane-symmetric spacetime. We consider the inhomogeneous spacetimes due to (i) localized gravitational waves with a positive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Hisa-aki SHINKAI , Kei-ichi MAEDA

During inflation, there is a preferred reference frame in which the expansion of the background spacetime is spatially isotropic. In contrast to Minkowski spacetime, observables can depend on the velocity of the system with respect to this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Tanguy Grall , Scott Melville

The main aim of this paper is to provide a qualitative introduction to the cosmic inflation and its relationship with current cosmological observations. The inflationary model solves many of the fundamental problems that challenge the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-24 J. Alberto Vazquez , Luis E. Padilla , Tonatiuh Matos

We first study dark energy models with a minimally-coupled scalar field and exponential potentials, admitting exact solutions for the cosmological equations: actually, it turns out that for this class of potentials the Einstein field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ester Piedipalumbo , Paolo Scudellaro , Giampiero Esposito , Claudio Rubano

We consider a noncommutative (NC) inflationary model with a homogeneous scalar field minimally coupled to gravity. The particular NC inflationary setting produces entirely new consequences. We first analyze the free field case and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-01 S. M. M. Rasouli , N. Saba , M. Farhoudi , J. Marto , P. Moniz

A simple algebraic method to obtain exact solutions to the scalar field equations in spatially flat FRW cosmology is derived. The field potential fuction is reduced to two terms which can be used to determine some characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-16 Marco A. Reyes

We obtain exact solutions for the Einstein equations with an exponential-potential scalar field (\(V=\Lambda e^{k\phi}\)) which represent simple inhomogeneous generalizations of Bianchi I cosmologies. Studying these equations numerically we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 J. M. Aguirregabiria , A. Feinstein , J. Ibanez

WE analyse the universe inflation when the source of gravity is electromagnetic fields obeying nonlinear electrodynamics with two parameters and without singularities. The cosmology of the universe with stochastic magnetic fields is…

General Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 S. I. Kruglov

The cosmological solutions of the non-minimal $ Y (R)F^2 $ theory which are compatible with FRW space-time are investigated. In order to avoid the isotropy violation of a vector field, it can be considered that the presence of a triplet of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-24 Özcan Sert

The inflationary epoch and the late time acceleration of the expansion rate of universe can be explained by assuming a gravitationally coupled scalar field. In this article, we propose a new method of finding exact solutions in the…

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Problem of cosmological singularity of general relativity theory is discussed. The possible resolution of this problem in the framework of inflationary cosmology is proposed. Physical conditions leading to bouncing inflationary solutions in…

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The review of basic cosmological properties of four-dimensional F(R)-gravity, including FRW equations of motion and its accelerating solutions, generalized fluid and scalar-tensor representation of the theory is done. Cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

We investigate spatially flat isotropic cosmological models which contain a scalar field with an exponential potential and a perfect fluid with a linear equation of state. We include an interaction term, through which the energy of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew P. Billyard , Alan A. Coley

To understand mechanisms leading to inflation and late acceleration of the Universe it is important to see how one or a set of quantum fields may evolve such that the classical energy-momentum tensor behave similar to a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-17 Houri Ziaeepour

We study an inflation mechanism based on attractor properties in cosmological evolutions of a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime based on the Einstein-scalar field theory. We find a new way to get the Hamilton-Jacobi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-10 Hyeong-Chan Kim