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We study the Einstein-Vlasov system coupled to a nonlinear scalar field with a nonnegative potential in locally spatially homogeneous spacetime, as an expanding cosmological model. It is shown that solutions of this system exist globally in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hayoung Lee

This paper reviews the dynamics of an isotropic and homogeneous cosmological scalar field. A general approach to the solution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations is developed, which does not require slow-roll or other approximations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 J. W. van Holten

We present a general framework for analyzing spatially inhomogeneous cosmological dynamics. It employs Hubble-normalized scale-invariant variables which are defined within the orthonormal frame formalism, and leads to the formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Claes Uggla , Henk van Elst , John Wainwright , George F R Ellis

We investigate the evolution of cosmological perturbations in models of dark energy described by a time-like unit normalized vector field specified by a general function $\mathcal{F}(\mathcal{K})$, so-called Generalized Einstein-Aether…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Richard A. Battye , Francesco Pace , Damien Trinh

The complete theory of cosmological evolution's macroscopic description is constructed with a help of self-consistent field. The theory includes a subsystem of linear equations of perturbations' evolution and nonlinear macroscopic Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-09 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

In this manuscript, we put forth a general scheme for defining initial value problems from Einstein's equations of General Relativity constrained by homogeneous and isotropic expansion. The cosmological models arising as solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Leandro G. Gomes , Marcelo A. C. Nogueira , Lucas Ruiz dos Santos

We propose a cosmological model that describes isotropic expansion of inhomogeneous universe. The energy-momentum tensor that creates the spatial inhomogeneity may not affect the uniform expansion scaling factor $a(t)$ in the FLRW-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-15 Wei-Jian Geng , H. Lu

Study the behaviour and the evolution of the cosmological field equations in an homogeneous and anisotropic spacetime with two scalar fields coupled in the kinetic term. Specifically, the kinetic energy for the scalar field Lagrangian is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 A. Giacomini , P. G. L. Leach , G. Leon , A. Paliathanasis

In this paper, we have searched the existence of the similarity solution for plane symmetric inhomogeneous cosmological models in general relativity. The matter source consists of perfect fluid with proportionality relation between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-14 Ahmad T. Ali , Anil Kumar Yadav

All classes of spatially homogeneous space-time models are found that allow the integration of the equations of motion of test particles and the eikonal equation by the method of complete separation of variables according to type (2.1).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Evgeny Osetrin , Konstantin Osetrin , Altair Filippov

The mechanism of the initial inflationary scenario of the universe and of its late-time acceleration can be described by assuming the existence of some gravitationally coupled scalar fields $\phi $, with the inflaton field generating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-27 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , M. K. Mak

It has been argued that the small perturbations to the homogeneous and isotropic configurations of a canonical scalar field in an expanding universe do not grow. We show that this is not true in general, and clarify the root of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Miguel Alcubierre , Axel de la Macorra , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , José M. Torres

We consider an Einstein-aether type Lorentz-violating theory of gravity in which the aether vector field $V_{\mu }$ is represented as the gradient of a scalar field $\phi $, $V_{\mu }=\nabla _{\mu }\phi $. A self interacting potential for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-08 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko , Hamid Reza Sepangi , Shahab Shahidi

The stability of the de Sitter era of cosmic expansion in spatially curved homogeneous isotropic universes is studied. The source of the gravitational field is an imperfect fluid such that the parameters that characterize it may change with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis P. Chimento , Alejandro S. Jakubi , Diego Pavon

We review the study of inhomogeneous perturbations about a homogeneous and isotropic background cosmology. We adopt a coordinate based approach, but give geometrical interpretations of metric perturbations in terms of the expansion, shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Karim A. Malik , David Wands

We investigate spatially flat isotropic cosmological models which contain a scalar field with an exponential potential and a perfect fluid with a linear equation of state. We include an interaction term, through which the energy of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew P. Billyard , Alan A. Coley

We consider a Lorentz-violating theory of inflation consisting of Einstein-aether theory with a scalar inflaton coupled bilinearly to the expansion of the aether. We determine the conditions for linearized stability, positive energy, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-17 William Donnelly , Ted Jacobson

We present, for the first time, the quantization process for the Einstein-aether scalar field cosmology. We consider a cosmological theory proposed as a Lorentz violating inflationary model, where the aether and scalar fields interact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 N. Dimakis , T. Pailas , A. Paliathanasis , G. Leon , Petros A. Terzis , T. Christodoulakis

The Einstein equations for a perfect fluid spatially homogeneous spacetime are studied in a unified manner by retaining the generality of certain parameters whose discrete values correspond to the various Bianchi types of spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert T. Jantzen

We consider spatially averaged inhomogeneous universe models and argue that, already in the absence of sources, an effective scalar field arises through foliating and spatially averaging inhomogeneous geometrical curvature invariants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-26 Thomas Buchert , Nathaniel Obadia