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We discuss cosmological models for an eternal universe. Physical observables show no singularity from the infinite past to the infinite future. While the universe is evolving, there is no beginning and no end - the universe exists forever.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-27 C. Wetterich

An outgrowth of the idea of inflation is advanced. In the inflation regime, the singularity condition is broken. Equations which govern inflation are invariant under time reversal, so that they describe deflation as well. Those two…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-02 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

We study a nonsingular bounce inflation model, which can drive the early universe from a contracting phase, bounce into an ordinary inflationary phase, followed by the reheating process. Besides the bounce that avoided the Big-Bang…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Taotao Qiu , Yu-Tong Wang

Loop quantum cosmology provides a nice solution of avoiding the big bang singularity through a big bounce mechanism in the high energy region. In loop quantum cosmology an inflationary universe is emergent after the big bounce, no matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xin Zhang , Yi Ling

We propose a new class of inflationary solutions to the standard cosmological problems (horizon, flatness, monopole,...), based on a modification of old inflation. These models do not require a potential which satisfies the normal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gia Dvali , Shamit Kachru

A theory of exponential modified gravity which explains both early-time inflation and late-time acceleration, in a unified way, is proposed. The theory successfully passes the local tests and fulfills the cosmological bounds and,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 E. Elizalde , S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov , L. Sebastiani , S. Zerbini

We propose a large class of nonsingular cosmologies of arbitrary spatial curvature whose cosmic history is determined by a primeval dynamical $\Lambda (t)$-term. For all values of the curvature, the models evolve between two extreme de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 J. A. S. Lima , E. L. D. Perico , G. J. M. Zilioti

Current astronomical observations are successfully explained by the present cosmological paradigm based on the concordance model ($\Lambda_0$CDM + Inflation). However, such a scenario is composed of a heterogeneous mix of ingredients for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 J. A. S Lima , Douglas Singleton

An unresolved question in inflationary cosmology is the assignment of probabilities to different types of events that can occur in the eternally inflating multiverse. We explore the possibility that the resolution of this "measure problem"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Jaume Garriga , Alexander Vilenkin

A remarkable property of modern cosmology is that it allows for a special case of symmetry, consisting in the possibility of describing the early-time acceleration (inflation) and the late-time acceleration using the same theoretical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-14 I. Brevik , V. V. Obukhov , A. V. Timoshkin

The inflationary paradigm has transformed our understanding of the early universe; yet most inflationary models are considered geodesically past-incomplete, suggesting a beginning of time or a primordial Big Bang singularity. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Damien A. Easson , Joseph E. Lesnefsky

We show that the big bang is a coordinate singularity for a large class of $k = -1$ inflationary FLRW spacetimes which we have dubbed 'Milne-like.' By introducing a new set of coordinates, the big bang appears as a past boundary of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-12 Eric Ling

We show that in the simplest theories of spontaneous symmetry breaking one can have a stage of a fast-roll inflation. In this regime the standard slow-roll condition |m^2| << H^2 is violated. Nevertheless, this stage can be rather long if…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrei Linde

It is shown that a physically reasonable spacetime that is eternally inflating to the future must possess an initial singularity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Arvind Borde , Alexander Vilenkin

Phantom Cosmology provides an unique opportunity to "connect" the phantom driven (low en- ergy meV scale) dark energy phase to the (high energy GUT scale) inflationary era. This is possible because the energy density increases in phantom…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Cosmin Ilie , Tirthabir Biswas , Katherine Freese

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 C. Wetterich

We present a novel theory of the very early universe which addresses the traditional horizon and flatness problems of big bang cosmology and predicts a scale invariant spectrum of perturbations. Unlike inflation, this scenario requires no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-24 Kurt Hinterbichler , Justin Khoury

In our previous paper \cite{8}, we proposed a cosmological model from the emergence of space, which possesses a significant character of evaluating the vacuum energy from the Hubble constant and the age of universe. And one problem of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-01 Zi-Liang Wang , Jian-Bo Deng

In this letter, we propose a model of inflationary cosmology with a bounce preceded and study its primordial curvature perturbations. Our model gives rise to a primordial power spectrum with a feature of oscillation on large scales compared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-02 Yi-Fu Cai , Tao-tao Qiu , Jun-Qing Xia , Xinmin Zhang

The big bang model and the history of the early universe according to the grand unified theories are introduced. The shortcomings of big bang are discussed together with their resolution by inflationary cosmology. Inflation, the subsequent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Lazarides