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An alternative scenario about the phenomenology of primordial Universe is k-inflation. According to this concept, inflation can be achieved by nonstandard kinetic term of scalar field, namely the inflaton. In this project we focus on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 F. P. Fronimos , S. A. Venikoudis

In the particular configuration of the scalar field K-essence in the Wheeler-DeWitt quantum equation, for some age in the Bianchi type I anisotropic cosmological model, a fractional differential equation for the scalar field arises…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-09 J. Socorro , J. Juan Rosales , L. Toledo Sesma

This paper discusses a simple procedure to reconstruct f (R)-gravity models from exact cosmological solutions of the Einstein field equations with a noninteracting classical scalar field-and-radiation background. From the kind of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-15 Heba Sami , Joseph Ntahompagaze , Amare Abebe

In the present work an inflationary tachyon field model of the early universe is considered. Several cosmological effects produced by a particular potential in this tachyonic era are studied, under the approximation of slow-roll inflation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-09 Iván E. Sánchez G. , Osvaldo P. Santillan

Our Universe is nearly spatially flat, but this does not mean that it is exactly spatially flat. In this paper we derive general quadratic actions for cosmological perturbations in non-flat models from the Horndeski theory. This allows us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Shingo Akama , Tsutomu Kobayashi

Recent cosmological tensions, notably the Hubble and $S_{8}$ tensions, necessitate extensions of the conventional $\Lambda$CDM framework, wherein additional dynamical fields alter the effective spacetime encountered by matter and radiation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Krishnendu Roy , Debashis Gangopadhyay , Chiranjeeb Singha , Goutam Manna

The advent of explicit Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflationary models within string theory has drawn renewed interest to the cosmological role of unusual scalar field dynamics, usually referred to as k-inflation. In this situation, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-07 Larissa Lorenz , Jerome Martin , Christophe Ringeval

The inflationary expansion of our early-time universe is considered in terms of the van der Waals equation, as equation of state for the cosmic fluid, where a bulk viscosity contribution is assumed to be present. The corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 I. Brevik , E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , A. V. Timoshkin

In this work we investigate the behavior of three-dimensional (3D) cosmological models. The simulation of inflationary and dark-energy-dominated eras are among the possible results in these 3D formulations; taking as starting point the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. H. Christmann , F. P. Devecchi , G. M. Kremer , C. M. Zanetti

We consider cosmological inflation generated by a scalar field slowly rolling off from a de Sitter maximum of its potential. The models belong to the class of hilltop models and represent the most general model of this kind in which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-05 Mariano Cadoni , Edgardo Franzin , Salvatore Mignemi

We consider a dynamics of Higgs' field in the framework of cosmological models involving the scalar field from Nonsymmetric Kaluza-Klein (Jordan-Thiry) Theory. The field plays here a role of a quintessence field. We consider phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Kalinowski

We obtain lagrangian for $k$-essence scalar field $\phi(r,t)$ with scalar curvature $k$ of Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric . Obtained lagrangian has two generalised co-ordinates $\phi$ and logarithm of scale factor ($q=\ln…

General Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Somnath Mukherjee

The Brans-Dicke scalar-tensor cosmological models are studied in both Einstein and Jordan frames, using hydrodynamical and self-interacting scalar field representations of the energy-momentum tensor, leading to the same background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-03 Tiago H. B. Alves , Júlio C. Fabris , Luiz Filipe Guimarães

K-essence theories are usually studied in the framework of one scalar field $\phi$. Namely, the Lagrangian of K-essence is the function of scalar field $\phi$ and its covariant derivative. However, in this paper, we explore a two-field pure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-27 Changjun Gao

In this paper we study slow-roll inflation with holonomy corrections from loop quantum cosmology. Both tensor and scalar power spectra of primordial perturbations are computed up to the first order in slow-roll parameters and $V/\rho_{c}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Jakub Mielczarek

In this paper, $k$-inflation is analyzed in warm braneworld scenario. A general class of $k$-essence models with power-law kinetic term is investigated and weak and strong dissipation regimes are studied. Scalar perturbations and spectral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-16 Lorenzo Sebastiani , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We study spherically symmetric solutions with a scalar field in the shift-symmetric subclass of the Horndeski theory. Constructing an effective energy-momentum tensor of the scalar field based on the two-fluid model, we decompose the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-13 Jiaming Shi , Taishi Katsuragawa , Taotao Qiu

We investigate a k-essence field localized on the brane evolving linearly with the cosmological time for arbitrary kinetic functions and consider the atypical k-essence model for linear and nonlinear k-fields in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-25 Luis P. Chimento , Martín G. Richarte

The power spectra of the scalar and tensor perturbations in the noncommutative k-inflation model are calculated in this paper. In this model, all the modes created when the stringy space-time uncertainty relation is satisfied are generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li , Dao-Jun Liu

The scalar particle production through a scalar field non-minimally coupled with geometry is investigated in the context of a spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe. In this paper, in order to study the evolution of particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Hao Yu , Wen-Di Guo , Ke Yang , Yu-Xiao Liu