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We investigate the imprints on the angular power spectra of cosmological perturbations of a pre-inflationary bounce phase, as described by the hybrid and dressed metric approaches to loop quantum cosmology. For this purpose, we derive a new…

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A self-consistent pre-inflationary extension of the inflationary scenario with the Starobinsky potential, favored by Planck data, is studied using techniques from loop quantum cosmology (LQC). The results are compared with the quadratic…

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Inflationary cosmology proposes that the early Universe undergoes accelerated expansion, driven, in simple scenarios, by a single scalar field, or inflaton. The form of the inflaton potential determines the initial spectra of density…

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Phenomenological effect of the super-inflation in loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is discussed. We investigate the case that the Universe is filled with the interacting field between massive scalar field and radiation. Considering the damping…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-28 Kui Xiao , Xiao-Kai He , Jian-Yang Zhu

A very simple non-singular inflationary model is presented where the unique matter content is a radiation fluid. The model slowly contracts from a very large, almost empty and flat spacetime and realizes a bounce. It is then launched to a…

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The theory of inflation is one of the fundamental and revolutionary developments of modern cosmology that became able to explain many issues of early universe in the context of the standard cosmological model (SCM). However, the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Jaume de Haro , Supriya Pan

This thesis is dedicated to studying cosmological inflation, which is a period of accelerated expansion in the very early Universe that is required to explain the observed anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. Inflation, when…

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We study a cosmological scenario in which inflation is preceded by a bounce. In this scenario, the primordial singularity, one of the major shortcomings of inflation, is replaced by a non-singular bounce, prior to which the universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Marc Lilley , Larissa Lorenz , Sebastien Clesse

We examine the full nonlinear dynamics of closed FRW universes in the framework of D-branes formalism. Friedmann equations contain additional terms arising from the bulk-brane interaction that provide a concrete model for nonsingular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-23 Rodrigo Maier , Ivano Damião Soares , Eduardo Valentino Tonini

We started the evolution of a flat universe from a nonsingular state called prematter which is governed by an inflationary equation of state $P=(\gamma_{p}-1)\rho$ where $\gamma_{p}$ represents the initial vacuum dominance of the universe.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Koray Karaca , Selcuk Bayin

Cosmological models with inflation and those with bounce have their own strengths and weaknesses. Here we construct a model in which a phase of bounce is followed by a viable inflationary phase. This incorporates several advantages of both…

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We investigate uniform rate inflationary universe in the framework of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) and find that this seemingly simple inflationary model is interlinked with various concepts such as cyclic evolution, HNI inflation and…

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At the level of heuristic effective dynamics, we investigate the cosmological inflation with holonomy corrections of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) in the $k=0$ Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model with a single inflaton field subject to a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Dah-Wei Chiou , Kai Liu

We investigate a bounce inflation model with a graceful exit into the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) decelerated Universe within $f(T)$ gravity framework, where $T$ is the torsion scalar in the teleparallelism. We study the cosmic thermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-13 Kazuharu Bamba , G. G. L. Nashed , W. El Hanafy , Sh. K. Ibraheem

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 develop a consistent analytic approach to determine the conditions under which slow roll inflation can arise when the inflaton is the same scalar field that is responsible for the bounce in Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). We find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-04 Anshuman Bhardwaj , Edmund J. Copeland , Jorma Louko

We discuss how initial conditions for cosmological evolution can be defined in Loop Quantum Cosmology with massive scalar field and how the presence of the bounce influences the probability of inflation in this theory, compared with General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-15 Suzana Bedić , Gregory Vereshchagin

The early universe need not be described by an incomplete inflationary phase connected to a separate, more exotic prehistory. Recent results show that, within non-static FRW cosmology, only positive spatial curvature permits a nonsingular,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Damien A. Easson

The standard model of cosmology assumes a homogeneous and isotropic universe that undergoes a period of exponential expansion very early on, named inflation. This stretches quantum fluctuations from the onset of inflation to cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Rita B. Neves

For most initial conditions, cosmologically relevant physical modes were trans-planckian at the bounce time, often by many magnitude orders. We improve the usual loop quantum cosmology calculation of the primordial power spectra -- in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau , Julien Grain