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We study the curvaton dynamics in brane-world cosmologies. Assuming that the inflaton field survives without decay after the end of inflation, we apply the curvaton reheating mechanism to Randall-Sundrum and to its curvature corrections:…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Vassilios Zamarias

We discuss the evolution of linear perturbations about a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background metric, using only the local conservation of energy-momentum. We show that on sufficiently large scales the curvature perturbation on spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Wands , Karim A. Malik , David H. Lyth , Andrew R. Liddle

A basic problem that confronts the standard cosmological models is the problem of initial singularity characterised by infinite material density, infinite temperature and infinite spacetime curvature. The inevitable existence of such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sudhakaran , C. Sivaram

For the Poincare gauge theory of gravity we consider the dynamical scalar torsion mode in a cosmological context. We explore in particular the possibility of using dynamical torsion to explain the current state of the accelerating Universe.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hwei-Jang Yo , James M. Nester

There is sufficient amount of internal evidence in the nature of gravitational theories to indicate that gravity is an emergent phenomenon like, e.g, elasticity. Such an emergent nature is most apparent in the structure of gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Padmanabhan

We propose a cosmological model which exhibits the phenomenon of self-acceleration: the Universe is attracted to the phase of accelerated expansion at late times even in the absence of the cosmological constant. The self-acceleration is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-04-15 D. S. Gorbunov , S. M. Sibiryakov

We find a cosmological solution corresponding to compactification of 10d supergravity on a warped conifold that easily circumvents `no-go' theorem given for a warped/flux compactification, providing new perspectives for the study of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ishwaree P. Neupane

Seiberg and Witten have shown that the non-perturbative stability of string physics on conformally compactified spacetimes is related to the behaviour of the areas and volumes of certain branes as the brane is moved towards infinity. If, as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 Brett McInnes

We study a cosmological model based on the canonical Hamiltonian transformation theory. Using a linear-quadratic approach for the free gravitational De Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian $H_\mathrm{Gr}$, the model contains terms describing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Johannes Kirsch , David Vasak , Armin van de Venn , Jürgen Struckmeier

We discuss the modified gravity which may produce the current cosmic aceleration of the universe and eliminates the need for dark energy. It is shown that such models where the action quickly grows with the decrease of the curvature define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

It is shown that the inflationary era in early universe is realized due to the effect of backreaction of quantized matter fields. In fact we start by quantizing a free scalar field in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-time, and the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Yoshinobu Habara , Hikaru Kawai , Masao Ninomiya

Eternal inflation arising from a potential landscape predicts that our universe is one realization of many possible cosmological histories. One way to access different cosmological histories is via the nucleation of bubble universes from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Matthew C. Johnson , Wei Lin

In this thesis, we discuss several instances in which non-linear behaviour affects cosmological evolution in the early Universe. We begin by reviewing the standard cosmological model and the tools used to understand it theoretically and to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-20 Pedro Carrilho

In this article, we investigate the mechanism of cosmological expansion and inflation by modeling dark energy as a four-dimensional continuous medium, with its elastic deformation described by a four-dimensional vector field. We demonstrate…

General Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Mathieu R. Beau

Recently, attempts have been made to understand the apparent near coincidence of the present dark energy and matter energy in terms of a dynamical attractor-like solution for the evolution of a scalar field. In these models the field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Yahiro , G. J. Mathews , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino , M. Orito

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

Observationally, the universe appears virtually critical. Yet, there is no simple explanation for this state. In this article we advance and explore the premise that the dynamics of the universe always seeks equilibrium conditions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Manasse R. Mbonye

The recently observed accelerated expansion of the universe has put a challenge for its theoretical understanding. As a possible explanation of this, it is considered that the most part of the present universe is filled with a form of…

Concordance cosmology points to a Universe of zero mean curvature, due to the inflation mechanism which occurred soon after the Big Bang, while along a relatively small number of lower redshift light paths where lensing events are observed,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Richard Lieu

The very early universe provides the best arena we currently have to test quantum gravity theories. The success of the inflationary paradigm in accounting for the observed inhomogeneities in the cosmic microwave background already…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Abhay Ashtekar