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This paper treats nonrelativistic matter and a scalar field $\phi$ with a monotonically decreasing potential minimally coupled to gravity in flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker cosmology. The field equations are reformulated as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Artur Alho , Claes Uggla

The purpose of this work is to use a renormalized quantum scalar field to investigate very early cosmology, in the Planck era immediately following the big bang. Renormalization effects make the field potential dependent on length scale,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-16 Kerson Huang , Hwee-Boon Low , Roh-Suan Tung

We study the evolution of cosmological perturbations, using a hybrid approximation scheme which upgrades the weak-field limit of Einstein's field equations to account for post-Newtonian scalar and vector metric perturbations and for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carmelita Carbone , Sabino Matarrese

Inflationary spatially homogeneous cosmological models within an Einstein-Aether gravitational framework are investigated. The matter source is assumed to be a scalar field which is coupled to the aether field expansion and shear scalars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 B. Alhulaimi , R. J. van den Hoogen , A. A. Coley

Inflationary homogeneous isotropic cosmological models filled by scalar fields and ultrarelativistic matter are examined in the framework of gauge theories of gravitation. By using quadratic scalar field potential numerical analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Minkevich , A. S. Garkun

We present new exact cosmological inhomogeneous solutions for gravity coupled to a scalar field in a general framework specified by the parameter $\lambda$. The equations of motion (and consequently the solutions) in this framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Perez Bergliaffa , K. E. Hibberd

We investigate spatially flat isotropic cosmological models which contain a scalar field with an exponential potential and a perfect fluid with a linear equation of state. We include an interaction term, through which the energy of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew P. Billyard , Alan A. Coley

We study evolution of cosmological models filled with the scalar field and barotropic matter. We consider the scalar field minimally and non-minimally coupled to gravity. We demonstrated the growth of degree of complexity of evolutional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-20 Orest Hrycyna , Marek Szydlowski

We consider the gravity interacting with matter scalar fields and quantized in the minisuperspace approach in which the wave functional is described by the Wheeler-DeWitt equations (WdW). Assuming the domination of the homogeneous and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-08 Alexander A. Andrianov , Oleg O. Novikov , Chen Lan

We study in detail the general solution for a scalar field cosmology with an exponential potential, correcting some imprecisions, encountered previously in the literature. In addition, we generalize this solution for a piecewise exponential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 A. A. Andrianov , F. Cannata , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

We employ the superpotential technique for the reconstruction of cosmological models with a non-minimally coupled scalar field evolving on a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background. The key point in this method is that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-08 A. Yu. Kamenshchik , A. Tronconi , G. Venturi , S. Yu. Vernov

While homogeneous cosmologies have long been studied in the group field theory (GFT) approach to quantum gravity, including a quantum description of cosmological perturbations is highly non-trivial. Here we apply a recent proposal for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Steffen Gielen , Lisa Mickel

We examine Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models in three spacetime dimensions. The matter content of the models is composed of a perfect fluid, with a $\gamma$-law equation of state, and a homogeneous scalar field minimally coupled to gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Norman Cruz , Cristian Martinez

We show that several integrable (i.e., exactly solvable) scalar cosmologies considered by Fr\'e, Sagnotti and Sorin (Nuclear Physics \textbf{B 877}(3) (2013), 1028--1106) can be generalized to include cases where the spatial curvature is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Davide Fermi , Massimo Gengo , Livio Pizzocchero

We analyse spacetimes with a conformal scalar field source, a cosmological constant and a quartic self-interaction term for the scalar field. We also consider additional matter contents in the form of Maxwell and Yang-Mills fields or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-10 Christian Lübbe

We present a hybrid study that combines a concise review of scalar-field cosmology with new analytic developments that integrate averaging reductions for oscillatory regimes with dynamical-systems techniques. For oscillatory fields, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Genly Leon , Aleksander Kozak , Claudio Michea

The dynamics of homogeneous Robertson--Walker cosmological models with a self-interacting scalar field source is examined here in full generality, requiring only the scalar field potential to be bounded from below and divergent when the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-16 Roberto Giambó , Fabio Giannoni , Giulio Magli

We solve isotropic, homogeneous cosmological models containing a self-interacting scalar field. Calculations are performed in four and two-dimensional spacetimes. We find several exact solutions that have an inflationary regime or has a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-07 Luis P. Chimento , Adriana E. Cossarini , Alejandro S. Jakubi

In the present work we perform a phase-plane analysis of the complete dynamical system corresponding to a flat FRW cosmological models with a perfect fluid and a self-interacting scalar field and show that every positive and monotonous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ana Nunes , Jose P. Mimoso

The present study investigates the nature of the field potential via new technique known as reconstruction method for the scalar field potentials. The key point of this technique is the assumption that Hubble parameter is dependent on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-14 M. Sharif , Saira Waheed