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An accelerated universe should naturally have a vacuum energy density determined by its dynamical curvature. The cosmological constant is most likely a temporary description of a dynamical variable that has been drastically evolving from…

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Cosmological perturbations generated during inflation exhibit striking quantum features, including entanglement and high circuit complexity. Yet their observational signatures remain effectively indistinguishable from classical stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 S. Shajidul Haque , Ghadir Jafari , Bret Underwood

The current epoch of accelerated cosmic expansion is postulated to be driven by dark energy, which in the standard model takes the form of a cosmological constant with equation of state parameter $w=-1$. We propose an innovative perspective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Sveva Castello , Stéphane Ilić , Martin Kunz

It is proposed that after the macroscopic fluctuation of energy density that is responsible for inflation dies away, a class of microscopic fluctuations, always present, survives to give the present day dark energy. This latter is simply a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Brout

Most high-energy constructions that realise a phase of cosmic inflation contain many degrees of freedom. Yet, cosmological observations are all consistent with single-field embeddings. We show how volume selection effects explain this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Koki Tokeshi , Vincent Vennin

We propose a unified single-field description of the galactic Dark Matter and various uniform scalar fields for the inflation and cosmological constant. The two types of effects could originate from a fluid of both spatially and temporally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Anaelle Halle , HongSheng Zhao , Baojiu Li

It has recently been shown [1] that light vector particles produced from inflationary fluctuations can give rise to the dark matter in the Universe. A similar mechanism has been discussed in [2] for a non-minimally coupled scalar enjoying a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Joerg Jaeckel

The possibility of thermally induced initial density perturbations in inflationary cosmology is examined. The fluctuation dynamics of a scalar field plus thermal bath system during slow roll is described by a Langevin-like equation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arjun Berera , Li-Zhi Fang

We consider a cosmological model with bulk viscosity ($\eta$) and variable cosmological $(\Lambda\propto \rho^{-\alpha}, \alpha=\rm const.$) and gravitational ($G$) constants. The model exhibits many interesting cosmological features.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Arbab I. Arbab

In the very early Universe the matter may be described by the free radiation, that is by the set of massless fields with negligible interactions between them. Then the dominating quantum effect is the trace anomaly which comes from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Fabris , A. M. Pelinson , I. L. Shapiro

We propose a model for cosmic inflation which is based on an effective description of strongly interacting, nonsupersymmetric matter within the framework of dynamical Abelian projection and centerization. The underlying gauge symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Hofmann , Mathias Th. Keil

In the framework of Inflationary theory, the assumption that the quantum state of the perturbations is a non-vacuum state leads to a difficulty: non-vacuum initial states imply, in general, a large energy density of inflaton field quanta,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro Gangui , Jerome Martin , Mairi Sakellariadou

We calculate the time evolution of the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor for a minimally-coupled massless scalar field in cosmological spacetimes, with an application to dark energy in mind. We first study the evolution from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Hajime Aoki , Satoshi Iso , Yasuhiro Sekino

The standard mechanism for producing the observed scale-invariant power spectrum from adiabatic vacuum fluctuations relies on first order derivative of fields in the action for curvature perturbations. It has been proven…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-10 Ghazal Geshnizjani , Nahid Ahmadi

In this paper, we investigate the evolution of the early universe within an emergent fractional cosmological framework. The underlying formulation is conceptually rooted in generalized measure constructions, closely related to fractal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 S. M. M. Rasouli

The notion of inflation (past or present) in standard cosmological models is shown to be a consequence of a sufficiently high second law entropy production from the internal heating of the universal expansion. The longitudinal viscous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Sakai , A. Widom , Y. N. Srivastava

We show that it is possible to realize an inflationary scenario even without conversion of the false vacuum energy to radiation. Such cosmological models have a deflationary stage in which $Ha^2$ is decreasing and radiation produced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Boris Spokoiny

Phantom cosmology allows to account for dynamics and matter content of the universe tracing back the evolution to the inflationary epoch, considering the transition to the non-phantom standard cosmology (radiation/matter dominated eras) and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Capozziello , S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

We consider an ultra-light scalar field with a mass comparable to (or lighter than) the Hubble parameter of the present universe, and calculate the time evolution of the energy-momentum tensor of the vacuum fluctuations generated during and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-18 Hajime Aoki , Satoshi Iso

We analytically and numerically show that the acceleration of the cosmic expansion could be explained by a Quadratic Gravity model which is known to be able to trigger sufficient inflation, with neither negative pressure matter nor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-25 Heng-Wei Chang