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We discuss gravitational physics in the Jordan and Einstein frames of $f (R)$ gravity coupled to the Standard Model. We elucidate the way in which the observed gravitational coupling arises in the Einstein frame for generic $f (R)$. We…

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We analyze the existence and stability of dynamical attractor solutions for cosmological inflation driven by the coupling between fermions and a gauge field. Assuming a spatially homogeneous and isotropic gauge field and fermion current,…

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We establish the dynamical attractor behavior in scalar-tensor theories of dark energy, providing a powerful framework to analyze classes of theories, predicting common evolutionary characteristics that can be compared against cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nishant Agarwal , Rachel Bean

We develop a frame-covariant formulation of inflation in the slow-roll approximation by generalizing the inflationary attractor solution for scalar-curvature theories. Our formulation gives rise to new generalized forms for the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Daniel Burns , Sotirios Karamitsos , Apostolos Pilaftsis

In this paper, we revisit the stability of power-law models, focusing on an alternative approach that differs significantly from the standard approaches used in studying power-law models. In the standard approach, stability is studied by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-20 Jose Mathew , A Thariq

In construction of an inflationary model, one usually assumes that the matter sector of the gravitational action is minimally coupled to the background. It means that the matter (inflaton) part of the action is coupled with the same metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-25 Yousef Bisabr

Scalar-Tensor theories of gravity can be formulated in different frames, most notably, the Einstein and the Jordan one. While some debate still persists in the literature on the physical status of the different frames, a frame…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Catena , M. Pietroni , L. Scarabello

We propose a cosmological model that makes a significant step toward solving the coincidence problem of the near similarity at the present of the dark energy and dark matter components. Our cosmology has the following properties: a) among…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Luca Amendola , Domenico Tocchini-Valentini

We consider the correspondence between the Jordan frame and the Einstein frame descriptions of scalar-tensor theory of gravitation. We argue that since the redefinition of the scalar field is not differentiable at the limit of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Laur Jarv , Piret Kuusk , Margus Saal

The method of a conformal transformation is applied to a general class of single field inflation models with non-minimal coupling to gravity and non-standard kinetic terms, in order to reduce the cosmological perturbative calculation to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-19 Takahiro Kubota , Nobuhiko Misumi , Wade Naylor , Naoya Okuda

We study the equivalence of two - order-by-order Einstein's equation and Reduced action - approaches to cosmological perturbation theory at all orders for different models of inflation. We point out a crucial consistency check which we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-21 Debottam Nandi , S. Shankaranarayanan

We investigate the gauge-invariant cosmological perturbations in the gravity and matter frames in the general scalar-tensor theory where two frames are related by the disformal transformation. The gravity and matter frames are the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Masato Minamitsuji

In this work we shall study the implications of a subclass of $E$-models cosmological attractors, namely of $a$-attractors, on hydrodynamically stable slowly rotating neutron stars. Specifically, we shall present the Jordan frame theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-16 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

One of the greatest problems of standard cosmology is the Big Bang singularity. Previously it has been shown that non-local ghostfree higher-derivative modifications of Einstein gravity in the ultra-violet regime can admit non-singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Tirthabir Biswas , Tomi Koivisto , Anupam Mazumdar

Recent results on the dynamical stability of a system involving the interaction of the ELKO spinor field with standard matter in the universe have been reanalysed, and the conclusion is that such system does not exhibit isolated stable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-04 S. H. Pereira , A. Pinho S. S. , J. M. Hoff da Silva

We consider a generic class of the so-called inflationary $-\alpha$ attractor models and compute the cosmological observables in the Einstein and Jordan frames, of the corresponding $F(R)-$gravity theory. We find that the two sets coincide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-06 A. Kuiroukidis

We consider the background cosmological solutions in the $6D$ (six-dimensional) model with one time and five space coordinates. The theory of our interest has the action composed by the Einstein term, cosmological constant, and two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel Muller , Sergey G. Rubin , Ilya L. Shapiro , Alexey Toporensky

We consider cosmological solutions and their stability with respect to homogeneous and isotropic perturbations in the braneworld model with the scalar-curvature term in the action for the brane. Part of the results are similar to those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmytro Iakubovskyi , Yuri Shtanov

Global properties of vacuum static, spherically symmetric configurations are studied in a general class of scalar-tensor theories (STT) of gravity in various dimensions. The conformal mapping between the Jordan and Einstein frames is used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Kirill A. Bronnikov

We provide a unified description of cosmological $\alpha$-attractors and late-time acceleration, in excellent agreement with the latest Planck data. Our construction involves two superfields playing distinctive roles: one is the dynamical…

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