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In cosmological group field theory (GFT) models for quantum gravity coupled to a massless scalar field the total volume, seen as a function of the scalar field, follows the classical Friedmann dynamics of a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-25 Andrea Calcinari , Steffen Gielen

We study the cosmological implications of interactions between spacetime quanta in the Group Field Theory (GFT) approach to Quantum Gravity from a phenomenological perspective. Our work represents a first step towards understanding Early…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-03 Marco de Cesare , Andreas G. A. Pithis , Mairi Sakellariadou

The effective description of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) has proved to be a convenient platform to study phenomenological implications of the quantum bounce that resolves the classical big-bang singularity. Originally, this description was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-04 Abhay Ashtekar , Brajesh Gupt

We discuss the most general field equations for cosmological spacetimes for theories of gravity based on non-linear extensions of the non-metricity scalar and the torsion scalar. Our approach is based on a systematic symmetry-reduction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Fabio D'Ambrosio , Lavinia Heisenberg , Simon Kuhn

We use dynamical system methods to explore the general behaviour of $f(T)$ cosmology. In contrast to the standard applications of dynamical analysis, we present a way to transform the equations into a one-dimensional autonomous system,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Awad , W. El Hanafy , G. G. L. Nashed , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In this paper, we explore the nonsingular cosmology within the framework of the Effective Field Theory(EFT) of cosmological perturbations. Due to the recently proved no-go theorem, any nonsingular cosmological models based on the cubic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-24 Yong Cai , Youping Wan , Hai-Guang Li , Taotao Qiu , Yun-Song Piao

We study the impact of effective interactions onto relationally evolving GFT condensates based on real-valued fields. In a first step we show that a free condensate configuration in an isotropic restriction settles dynamically into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Andreas G. A. Pithis , M. Sakellariadou

A brief summary of the application of coherent states in the examination of quantum dynamics of cosmological models is given. We discuss quantization maps, phase space probability distributions and semiclassical phase spaces. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-15 Przemyslaw Malkiewicz

Coherent state functional integrals for the minisuperspace models of quantum cosmology are studied. By the well-established canonical theories, the transition amplitudes in the path-integral representations of Wheeler-DeWitt quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Li Qin , Yongge Ma

Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) is a statistical field theory for an ensemble of point-like classical particles in or out of equilibrium. We review its application to cosmological structure formation. Beginning with the construction of the…

The present paper is the companion of [1] in which we proposed a scheme that tries to derive the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on Curved Spacetimes (CST) limit from background independent Quantum General Relativity (QGR). The constructions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Thiemann

The classical and quantum dynamics of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe with massless scalar and massive fermion matter field as a source is discussed in the framework of the Dirac generalized Hamiltonian formalism. The Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Khvedelidze , Yu. G. Palii

In this whitepaper, I describe modern applications of effective field theory (EFT) techniques to classical and quantum gravity, with relevance to problems in astrophysics and cosmology. As in applications of EFT to high-energy, nuclear, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-30 Walter D. Goldberger

The exact and stable evolutions of generalized coherent states (GCS) for quantum systems are considered by making use of the time-dependent integrals of motion method and of the Klauder approach to the relationship between quantum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Nikolov , D. A. Trifonov

Effective field theory provides a perturbative framework to study the evolution of cosmological large-scale structure. We investigate the underpinnings of this approach, and suggest new ways to compute correlation functions of cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-16 Sean M. Carroll , Stefan Leichenauer , Jason Pollack

It has been known for some time that the cosmological Friedmann equation deduced from General Relativity can be also obtained within the Newtonian framework under certain assumptions. We use this result together with quantum corrections to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Pedro Bargueño , Sergio Bravo-Medina , Marek Nowakowski , Davide Batic

In this paper I will first outline an effective field theory for cosmology (EFTC) that is based on the Standard Model coupled to General Relativity and improved with Weyl symmetry. There are no new physical degrees of freedom in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-21 Itzhak Bars

Coherent state functional integral for the minisuperspace model of loop quantum cosmology is studied. By the well-established canonical theory, the transition amplitude in the path integral representation of loop quantum cosmology with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-07 Li Qin , Yongge Ma

Semiclassical states in isotropic loop quantum cosmology are employed to show that the improved dynamics has the correct classical limit. The effective Hamiltonian for the quantum cosmological model with a massless scalar field is thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-27 You Ding , Yongge Ma , Jinsong Yang

We construct approximate solutions of the hybrid quantum Gowdy cosmology with three-torus topology, linear polarization, and local rotational symmetry, in the presence of a massless scalar field. More specifically, we determine some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-22 Beatriz Elizaga Navascués , Mercedes Martín-Benito , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán