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We study slow-roll inflation driven by a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity within the effective framework of Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), including inverse-volume corrections. We consider two physically motivated classes of…

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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…

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Using techniques from loop quantum gravity, the standard theory of cosmological perturbations was recently generalized to encompass the Planck era. We now apply this framework to explore pre-inflationary dynamics. The framework enables us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

The evolution of a scalar field is explored taking into account the presence of a background fluid in a positively curved Universe in the framework of loop quantum cosmology. Though the mechanism that provides the initial conditions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. J. Nunes

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 Bikash Chandra Paul , Sahil Saini

In this paper we present a simple argument that shows a non-singular bouncing cosmology naturally yields an era of super-inflation which can precede the phase of normal potential driven inflation. One of the consequences of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Tirthabir Biswas , Anupam Mazumdar

Loop quantum cosmology is a symmetry-reduced application of loop quantum gravity. The theory predicts a bounce for the universe at the Planck scale and resolves the singularity of standard cosmology. The dynamics is also governed by an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Abolhassan Mohammadi

Warm inflation is analyzed in the context of Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). The bounce in LQC provides a mean through which a Liouville measure can be defined, which has been used previously to characterize the a priori probability for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 L. L. Graef , Rudnei O. Ramos

Loop quantum cosmology provides an efficient framework to study the evolution of the Universe beyond the classical Big Bang paradigm. Because of holonomy corrections, the singularity is replaced by a "bounce". The dynamics of the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Jakub Mielczarek , Thomas Cailleteau , Julien Grain , Aurelien Barrau

We make use of possible high energy correction to the Friedmann equation to implement the bounce and study the behavior of massive scalar field before and after bounce semianalytically and numerically. We find that the slow-roll inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yun-Song Piao , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

The prediction of a phase of inflation whose number of e-folds is constrained is an important feature of loop quantum cosmology. This work aims at giving some elementary clarifications on the role of the different hypotheses leading to this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Boris Bolliet , Aurélien Barrau , Killian Martineau , Flora Moulin

Qualitative dynamics of three different loop quantizations of spatially flat isotropic and homogeneous models is studied using effective spacetime description of the underlying quantum geometry. These include the standard loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Bao-Fei Li , Parampreet Singh , Anzhong Wang

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

This work is an analytical study of the main differences between classical inflationary effects of a fast-roll regime and imprints of hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) on the primordial power spectrum. Effective LQC solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-01 Beatriz Elizaga Navascués , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

Inflationary models of the early universe provide a natural mechanism for the formation of large scale structure. This success brings to forefront the question of naturalness: Does a sufficiently long slow roll inflation occur generically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Abhay Ashtekar , David Sloan

Assuming that the e-folding number is just determined by the change of the scale factor, the tachyonic inflation theory in LQC has been discussed. Considering the tachyon field with exponential potential and inverse quadratic potential, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-16 Kui Xiao , Xiao-Kai He , Fei Huang , Jian-Yang Zhu

Quantum reduced loop gravity is designed to consistently study symmetry reduced systems within the loop quantum gravity framework. In particular, it bridges the gap between the effective cosmological models of loop quantum cosmology and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Emanuele Alesci , Aurélien Barrau , Gioele Botta , Killian Martineau , Gabriele Stagno

The creation of ultra-light dark particles in the late-time FLRW spacetime provides a cosmological model in accordance with precise observational tests. The matter creation backreaction implies in this context a vacuum energy density…

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In loop quantum gravity, modifications to the geometrical density cause a self-interacting scalar field to accelerate away from a minimum of its potential. In principle, this mechanism can generate the conditions that subsequently lead to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Bojowald , James E. Lidsey , David J. Mulryne , Parampreet Singh , Reza Tavakol

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