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As an alternative to the paradigm of slow roll inflation, we propose an extended scenario of the matter bounce cosmology in which the Universe has experienced a quasi-matter contracting phase with a variable background equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-04 Jaume de Haro , Yi-Fu Cai

We study the bounce and cyclicity realization in the framework of new gravitational scalar-tensor theories. In these theories the Lagrangian contains the Ricci scalar and its first and second derivatives, in a specific combination that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Shreya Banerjee , R. Myrzakulov

The cosmological dynamics in the early universe are investigated to explore the possibility of the sign reversal of the Hubble parameter as a key feature of non-singular bouncing cosmological solutions in higher-order torsion gravity. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Adnan Malik , Aimen Rauf , Kazuharu Bamba , Wenbin Lin , Fatemah Mofarreh

In this study, we explore the dynamics of the universe using a modified gravity model represented by $f(R, G, T)$, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar, $G$ is the Gauss-Bonnet invariant, and $T$ is the trace of the stress-energy tensor. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-27 Farzad Milani

The present manuscript presents modeling of matter bounce in the framework of $f(R,T)$ gravity where $f(R,T) = R + 2 \lambda T$. We start by defining a parametrization of scale factor which is non-vanishing. The geometrical parameters such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-04 Parbati Sahoo , S. Bhattacharjee , S. K. Tripathy , P. K. Sahoo

This paper is devoted to examining cosmological bouncing scenarios in the framework of the recently proposed symmetric teleparallel gravity (or $f(Q)$ gravity), where the non-metricity scalar $Q$ represents the gravitational interaction. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 M. Koussour , N. Myrzakulov

We explore the possibility of realizing a non-singular bounce in the early universe within the framework of modified gravity with spacetime torsion. In Einstein Cartan theory, torsion is embedded in the spacetime by adding an antisymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Sonej Alam , Somasri Sen , Soumitra Sengupta

A cosmological model with a specific form of the Hubble parameter is constructed in a flat homogeneous, and isotropic background in the framework of $f(R, T)$ gravity, where $R$ is the scalar curvature and $T$ is the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-04 J. K. Singh , Kazuharu Bamba , Ritika Nagpal , S. K. J. Pacif

The main objective of this manuscript is to investigate the bouncing cosmology in the background of $f(\mathcal{Q})$ gravity, where $\mathcal{Q}$ defines the non-metricity. For this purpose, we use the reconstruction approach and consider a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-02 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul , Nusrat Fatima

In the framework of massive gravity with a de Sitter reference metric, we study homogeneous and isotropic solutions with positive spatial curvature. Remarkably, we find that bounces can occur when cosmological matter satisfies the strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 David Langlois , Atsushi Naruko

The primary aim of this work is to explore feasible bouncing cosmological solutions in the framework of $f(\mathcal{Q}, \mathcal{C})$ gravity, where $\mathcal{Q}$ denotes non-metricity and $\mathcal{C}$ indicates the boundary term. To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul , Ahmad Nawaz

We investigate bouncing solutions in the framework of the non-singular gravity model of Brandenberger, Mukhanov and Sornborger. We show that a spatially flat universe filled with ordinary matter undergoing a phase of contraction reaches a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 L. Raul Abramo , Patrick Peter , Ivan Yasuda

We explore dynamics of cosmological models with bounce solutions evolving on a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker background. We consider cosmological models that contain the Hilbert-Einstein curvature term, the induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-08 Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva , Maria A. Skugoreva , Alexey V. Toporensky , Sergey Yu. Vernov

The main objective of this article is to investigate the viability of bouncing cosmological scenarios using different forms of scale factors with perfect matter configuration in the framework of extended symmetric teleparallel theory. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-31 M. Zeeshan Gul , M. Sharif , Shamraiza Shabbir

Some phantom cosmological models without big rip singularity have been constructed in a simple extended theory of gravity. In the geometrical part of the action, a minimally coupled linear function of the Ricci Scalar and the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-14 S. K. Tripathy , B. Mishra

In this study we demonstrate the interacting teleparallel gravity models, to describe the matter bounce scenario. We discussed two interacting models and find both are suitable choice to describe the bouncing phenomena. The co-moving Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 S. A. Kadam , A. S. Agrawal

The dynamical aspects of some accelerating models are investigated in the framework of an extension of symmetric teleparllel gravity dubbed as f(Q,T) gravity. In this gravity theory, the usual Ricci tensor in the geometrical action is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-28 Laxmipriya Pati , B. Mishra , S. K. Tripathy

We investigate a particular type of classical nonsingular bouncing cosmology, which results from general relativity if we allow for degenerate metrics. The simplest model has a matter content with a constant equation-of-state parameter and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 F. R. Klinkhamer , Z. L. Wang

We investigate which Jordan frame $F(R)$ gravity can describe a Type IV singular bouncing cosmological evolution, with special emphasis given near the point at which the Type IV singularity occurs. The cosmological bounce is chosen in such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-06 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

In the context of a ghost free $f(R,\mathcal{G})$ model, an extended matter bounce scenario is studied where the form of the scale factor is given by $a(t) = (a_0t^2 + 1)^n$. The ghost free character of the model is ensured by the presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , Tanmoy Paul