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This is a review of the Cold Dark Matter model of structure formation, and its variants. The approach is largely from first principles, the main aim being to impart a basic understanding of the relevant theory with an eye to the likely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Andrew R Liddle , David H Lyth

In this talk, we discuss one of the dissipative processes which likely take place in the Early Universe. We assume that the matter filling the isotropic and homogeneous background is to be described by a relativistic viscous fluid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-03 A. Tawfik , T. Harko , H. Mansour , M. Wahba

In this work we focus on the gravitationally influenced adiabatic particle creation process, a mechanism that does not need any dark energy or modified gravity models to explain the current accelerating phase of the universe. Introducing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-10 Supriya Pan , Barun Kumar Pal , Souvik Pramanik

Although we have yet to determine whether the DAMA data represents a true discovery of new physics, among such interpretations inelastic dark matter (IDM) can match the energy spectrum of DAMA very well while not contradicting the results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-17 Yanou Cui , David E. Morrissey , David Poland , Lisa Randall

The semiclassical collapse of a sphere of quantized dust is studied. A Born-Oppenheimer decomposition is performed for the wave function of the system and the semiclassical limit is considered for the gravitational part. The method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Roberto Casadio , Fabio Finelli , Giovanni Venturi

We construct a cosmological model which is physically reasonable, mathematically tractable, and extends the study of CDM models to the case where the equations of state (EoS) for matter and dark energy (DE) vary with time. It is based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-14 J. Ponce de Leon

The presence of Dark Matter (DM) is required in the universe regulated by the standard general relativistic theory of gravitation. The nature of DM is however still elusive to any experimental search. We discuss here the process of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Colafrancesco

Consideration of the adiabatic character of radiation expansion in early Universe leads to the conclusion that equilibrium distribution of the primordial radiation in the presence of charged particles could be different from the Planck…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Trigger

Evidence has continued to accumulate over the last few decades as to the existence and nature of dark matter. Depending on the particle candidate, the dark matter can exhibit one of several cosmologically defined models: hot dark matter,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-10 M. R. Lovell

Cosmological arguments proving that the universe is dominated by invisible non-baryonic matter are reviewed. Possible physical candidates for dark matter particles are discussed. A particular attention is paid to non-compensated remnants of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Dolgov

We investigate the cosmological matter creation scenario, an alternative approach to both dark energy and modified gravity theories, after the recent DESI DR2-BAO release. We consider that the total matter sector consists of three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Sauvik Bhattacharjee , Sudip Halder , Jaume de Haro , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

The pre-big bang scenario describes the evolution of the Universe from an initial state approaching the flat, cold, empty, string perturbative vacuum. The choice of such an initial state is suggested by the present state of our Universe if…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Gasperini

A bouncing universe with a long period of contraction during which the average density is pressureless (the same equation of state as matter) as cosmologically observable scales exit the Hubble horizon has been proposed as an explanation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Aaron M. Levy

This paper presents a brief review of the evidence for dark matter in the Universe on the scales of galaxies. In the interests of critically and objectively testing the dark matter paradigm on these scales, this evidence is weighed against…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 M. R. Merrifield

The standard cold dark matter cosmological model, while successful in explaining the observed large scale structure of the Universe, tends to overpredict structure on small scales. It has been proposed this problem may be alleviated in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 Nicole F. Bell , Ahmad J. Galea , Raymond R. Volkas

Assuming that (1) the universe underwent a post-inflationary accelerated expansion phase driven by a fluid with equation of state $P=w\rho$ and $-1<w<-1/3$, that (2) the cosmic horizon in an accelerating, quasi-de Sitter universe has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-24 Stefano Profumo

The universe content is considered as a non-perfect fluid with bulk viscosity and can be described by a general equation of state (endowed some deviation from the conventionally assumed cosmic perfect fluid model). An explicitly bulk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 X H Meng , X Dou

The past century of interstellar dust has brought us from first ignoring it to finding that it is an important component of the interstellar medium and plays an important role in the evolution of galaxies, the formation of stars and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aigen Li , J. Mayo Greenberg

We present a description for setting initial particle displacements and field values for simulations of arbitrary metric theories of gravity, for perfect and imperfect fluids with arbitrary characteristics. We extend the Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Wessel Valkenburg , Bin Hu

In this paper we present the constraints on cold dark matter (CDM) isocurvature contributions to the cosmological perturbations. By employing Markov Chain Monte Carlo method (MCMC), we perform a global analysis for cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-04 Hong Li , Jie Liu , Jun-Qing Xia , Yi-Fu Cai