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The big bang singularity could be understood as a breakdown of Einstein's General Relativity at very high energies. Adopting this viewpoint, other theories, that implement Einstein Cosmology at high energies, might solve the problem of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Jaume Amorós , Jaume de Haro , Sergei D. Odintsov

In massless scalar field cosmology, imposing the universe's physical volume as fundamentally discrete resolves the big bang singularity via a big bounce. We use quantum field theory on curved background to numerically track the number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Mustafa Saeed , Irfan Javed , Aiman Nauman

Among many models which can describe the bouncing cosmology, A matter bounce scenario that is deformed by a running vacuum model of dark energy (RVM-DE) has been interested. In this research, I show that a class of RVM-CDM (cold dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 A. Khodam-Mohammadi

Massless scalar fields originating in a quantum vacuum state acquire a scale-invariant spectrum of fluctuations in a matter-dominated contracting universe. We show that these isocurvature fluctuations transfer to a scale-invariant spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Yi-Fu Cai , Robert Brandenberger , Xinmin Zhang

We explore the isotropization of a model anisotropic universe in the bouncing models using the ekpyrotic potential without assuming initial conditions corresponding to an ekpyrotic phase. In particular, we explore the way the use of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Rachel Brown , A. Meenakshi McNamara , Sahil Saini , Parampreet Singh

We propose a mechanism to generate a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of adiabatic scalar perturbations about a stable, ekpyrotic background. The key ingredient is a coupling between a single ekpyrotic field and a perfect fluid of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Aaron M. Levy , Gustavo Turiaci

$Circuit~ Complexity$, a well known computational technique has recently become the backbone of the physics community to probe the chaotic behaviour and random quantum fluctuations of quantum fields. This paper is devoted to the study of…

We consider an isotropic and homogeneous universe in loop quantum cosmology. We assume that the matter content of the universe is dominated by dust matter in early time and a phantom matter at late time which constitutes the dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-26 Yaser Tavakoli , Julio C. Fabris

We consider bouncing cosmologies in which an ekpyrotic contraction phase with w >> 1 is followed by a bouncing phase with w < -1 that violates the null energy condition. The bouncing phase, induced by ghost condensation, is designed to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 BingKan Xue , Paul J. Steinhardt

We consider a dynamical system of phantom scalar field under exponential potential in background of loop quantum cosmology. In our analysis, there is neither stable node nor repeller unstable node but only two saddle points, hence no Big…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daris Samart , Burin Gumjudpai

We examine the processes of quantum squeezing and decoherence of density perturbations produced during a slowly contracting ekpyrotic phase in which entropic perturbations are converted to curvature perturbations before the bounce to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Lorenzo Battarra , Jean-Luc Lehners

An oscillating universe cycles through a series of expansions and contractions. We propose a model in which ``phantom'' energy with $p < -\rho$ grows rapidly and dominates the late-time expanding phase. The universe's energy density is so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Matthew G. Brown , Katherine Freese , William H. Kinney

We consider the construction of nonsingular Pre-Big-Bang and Ekpyrotic type cosmological models realized by the addition to the action of specific higher-order terms stemming from quantum corrections. We study models involving general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Shinji Tsujikawa , Robert Brandenberger , Fabio Finelli

We investigate cosmological scenarios in the theory of gravity with the scalar field possessing a non-minimal kinetic coupling to the curvature. It is shown that the kinetic coupling provides an essentially new inflationary mechanism.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Sergey Sushkov

We investigate the emergence of a quantum Big-Bounce in the context of an isotropic Universe, filled by a self-interacting scalar field, which plays the role of a physical clock. The bouncing cosmology is the result of a scattering process,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-04 S. Lo Franco , G. Montani

Matter bounces refer to scenarios wherein the universe contracts at early times as in a matter dominated epoch until the scale factor reaches a minimum, after which it starts expanding. While such scenarios are known to lead to scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Rathul Nath Raveendran , Debika Chowdhury , L. Sriramkumar

In this article, we consider a bouncing Universe, as described for example by Loop Quantum Cosmology. If the current acceleration is due to a true cosmological constant, this constant is naturally conserved through the bounce and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Aurelien Barrau , Linda Linsefors

In this work, we investigate the notion of time and unitarity in the vicinity of a bounce in quantum cosmology, that is, a turning point for the scale factor. Because WKB methods drastically fail near a turning point, the scale factor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Antonin Coutant

An oscillating universe cycles through a series of expansions and contractions. We propose a model in which ``phantom'' energy with a supernegative pressure ($p < - \rho$) grows rapidly and dominates the late-time expanding phase. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-29 Katherine Freese , Matthew G. Brown , William H. Kinney

We explore bounce cosmology in $F(\mathcal{G})$ gravity with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant $\mathcal{G}$. We reconstruct $F(\mathcal{G})$ gravity theory to realize the bouncing behavior in the early universe and examine the stability…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-17 Kazuharu Bamba , Andrey N. Makarenko , Alexandr N. Myagky , Sergei D. Odintsov