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Vacuum energy, a prediction of quantum field theory, manifests itself as a cosmological constant in general relativity. In this Letter, we propose a novel inflationary scenario driven by a bare cosmological constant $\Lambda$, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Chengsheng Mu , Shuxun Tian , Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

We study dynamics of $\Lambda(t)$ cosmological models which are a natural generalization of the standard cosmological model (the $\Lambda$CDM model). We consider a class of models: the ones with a prescribed form of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-29 Marek Szydlowski , Aleksander Stachowski

A class of viable $F(R)$ gravity models which can provide a unified description of inflation with the dark energy era is confronted with the latest observational data on the dark energy era. These models have the unique characteristic that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , G. S. Sharov

Motivated by the current status of the cosmological observations and significant tensions in the estimated values of some key parameters assuming the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, we propose a simple but radical phenomenological emergent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Xiaolei Li , Arman Shafieloo

The cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and cold dark matter (CDM) model ($\Lambda\text{CDM}$) is one of the pillars of modern cosmology and is widely used as the de facto theoretical model by current and forthcoming surveys. As the nature of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Rubén Arjona , Alessandro Melchiorri , Savvas Nesseris

The current concordance model of cosmology is dominated by two mysterious ingredients: dark matter and dark energy. In this paper, we explore the possibility that, in fact, there exist two dark-energy components: the cosmological constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 J. Alberto Vazquez , S. Hee , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby , M. Ibison , M. Bridges

In the present paper, we perform a sub-Planckian quantum mode analysis of linear cosmological perturbation in the inflaton field over a classical quasi de-Siter metric background by dynamical horizon exit (DHE) method. In this way, we probe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-05 Arunoday Sarkar , Buddhadeb Ghosh

We study flat FLRW $\alpha$-attractor $\mathrm{E}$- and $\mathrm{T}$-models by introducing a dynamical systems framework that yields regularized unconstrained field equations on two-dimensional compact state spaces. This results in both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 Artur Alho , Claes Uggla

We examine the validity of the $\Lambda$CDM model, and probe for the dynamics of dark energy using latest astronomical observations. Using the $Om(z)$ diagnosis, we find that different kinds of observational data are in tension within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Yuecheng Zhang , Hanyu Zhang , Dandan Wang , Yanghan Qi , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

We apply a new non-parametric Bayesian method for reconstructing the evolution history of the equation-of-state $w$ of dark energy, based on applying a correlated prior for $w(z)$, to a collection of cosmological data. We combine the latest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-20 Gong-Bo Zhao , Robert G. Crittenden , Levon Pogosian , Xinmin Zhang

It was first observed at the end of the last century that the universe is presently accelerating. Ever since, there have been several attempts to explain this observation theoretically. There are two possible approaches. The more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-14 Prasenjit Paul , Rikpratik Sengupta

In this paper a new theory of Dark Matter is proposed. Experimental analysis of several Galaxies show how the non-gravitational contribution to galactic Velocity Rotation Curves can be interpreted as that due to the Cosmological Constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. V. Kraniotis , S. B. Whitehouse

In the present work, we consider the cosmological constant model $\Lambda\propto\alpha^{-6}$, which is well motivated from three independent approaches. As is well known, the hint of varying fine structure constant $\alpha$ was found in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-10 Hao Wei , Xiao-Bo Zou , Hong-Yu Li , Dong-Ze Xue

The accelerating expansion of the universe is the most surprising cosmological discovery in many decades. In this short review, we briefly summarize theories for the origin of cosmic acceleration and the observational methods being used to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-03 Michael J. Mortonson , David H. Weinberg , Martin White

The current expansion of the Universe has been observed to be accelerating, and the widely accepted spatially-flat concordance model of general relativistic cosmology attributes this phenomenon to a constant dark energy, a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-13 Shulei Cao

For the first time, we reconstruct the dark energy equation of the state parameter $w$ from the combination of background and perturbation observations, specifically combining the Hubble parameter data from cosmic chronometer observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-15 Bikash R. Dinda , Narayan Banerjee

The dynamics of expansion and large scale structure formation of the Universe are analyzed for models with dark energy in the form of a phantom scalar field which initially mimics a $\Lambda$-term and evolves slowly to the Big Rip…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Olga Sergijenko , Ruth Durrer , Volodymyr Pelykh

We investigate a compelling model of quintessential inflation in the context of $\alpha$-attractors, which naturally result in a scalar potential featuring two flat regions, the inflationary plateau and the quintessential tail. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Leonora Donaldson Wood , Charlotte Owen

We investigate the constraints on cosmological parameters especially for EoS of dark energy, inflationary parameters, neutrino mass and curvature of universe using simulated Planck data. Firstly we determine cosmological parameters with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li , Gong-Bo Zhao , Xinmin Zhang

We propose a time-varying cosmological constant with a fixed equation of state, which evolves mainly through its interaction with the background during most of the long history of the universe. However, such interaction does not exist in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Murli Manohar Verma