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We consider perturbations in the isotropic and homogeneous cosmological model with the spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker metric in the framework of the theory of gravity with non-minimal derivative coupling. The Lagrangian…

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In Schroedinger picture we study the possible effects of trans-Planckian physics on the quantum evolution of massive non-minimally coupled scalar field in de Sitter space. For the nonlinear Corley-Jacobson type dispersion relations with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Jung-Jeng Huang

In the Emergent scenario, the Universe should evolve from a non-singular state replacing the typical singularity of General Relativity, for any initial condition. For the scalar field model in [1] we show that only a set of measure zero of…

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Motivated by the structure of one-loop vacuum polarization effects in curved spacetime we discuss a non-minimal extension of the Einstein-Maxwell equations. This formalism is applied to Bianchi I models with magnetic field. We obtain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alexander B. Balakin , Winfried Zimdahl

In this work we have studied a cosmological model based on a quintom dark energy model non-minimally coupled with gravity, endowed with a specfic potential energy of the exponential squared type. For this specific type of potential energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Mihai Marciu

An oscillating, compact Friedmann universe with a massive conformally coupled scalar field is studied in the framework of quantum cosmology. The scalar field is treated as a perturbation and we look for solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-23 Thibault Damour , Alexander Vilenkin

The expansion of the Universe is observed to be accelerating, with the simplest solution being a classical cosmological constant. However, this receives contributions from the quantum vacuum, which are predicted to be many orders of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-04 Arnaz Khan , Andy Taylor

We study the phase space analysis of a nonminimally coupled scalar field model with different potentials such as KKLT, Higgs, inverse and inverse square. Our investigation brings new asymptotic regimes, and obtains stable de-Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-27 M. Shahalam , Shynaray Myrzakul

We discuss several aspects of quantum field theory of a scalar field in a Friedmann universe, clarifying and highlighting several conceptual and technical issues. (A) We show that one can map the dynamics of (1) a massless scalar field in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-17 Kinjalk Lochan , Karthik Rajeev , Amit Vikram , T. Padmanabhan

It is known that the cosmological constant can be dynamically tuned to an arbitrary small value in classes of scalar tensor theories. The trouble with such schemes is that effective gravity itself vanishes. We explore the possibility of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nimmi Rooprai , Daksh Lohiya

We investigate the evolution of a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe in the framework of scalar non-metricity theory of gravity. In the model, we consider dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) described by the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Bikash Chandra Roy , Bikash Chandra Paul

The physical instability of the Universe model with de Sitter beginning is proved in this article. 1. It is shown that even a small addition of ultrarelativistic matter turns the de Sitter Universe into the Universe with finite past. 2.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-24 Yurii Ignat'ev

In this paper we investigate the case of non-minimal coupling in the (extended) nonlinear massive gravity theories. We first consider massive gravity in the Brans-Dicke background such that the graviton mass is replaced by $A^2(\sigma)m$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-09 K. Bamba , Md. Wali Hossain , R. Myrzakulov , S. Nojiri , M. Sami

The one-loop effective action for non-minimal scalar modified gravity on de Sitter background with a constant scalar field is found. The corresponding induced cosmological constant is evaluated. It is shown that quantum effects in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-07 G. Cognola , E. Elizalde , S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

We discuss the instabilities appearing in the cosmological model with a quasi de Sitter phase following from a fourth-order gravity theory. Both the classical equation as well as the quantization in form of a Wheeler - De Witt equation are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Kasper , S. Kluske , M. Rainer , S. Reuter , H. -J. Schmidt

On the basis of qualitative theory of differential equations it is shown that dynamic system based on the system of Einstein - Klein - Gordon equations with regard to Friedman Universe has a stable center corresponding to zero values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-06 Yurii Ignat'ev

We study a new model of scalar field with a general non-minimal kinetic coupling to itself and to the curvature, as a source of dark energy, and analyze the cosmological dynamics of this model and the issue of accelerated expansion. A wide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 L. N. Granda , W. Cardona

De Sitter solutions play an important role in cosmology because the knowledge of unstable de Sitter solutions can be useful to describe inflation, whereas stable de Sitter solutions are often used in models of late-time acceleration of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Sergey Vernov , Ekaterina Pozdeeva

In this study, motivated by recent results from DESI DR2 suggesting the existence of evolving/interacting dark energy, we analyze spatially flat FLRW interacting scalar-tensor cosmological models with non-minimal coupling (NMC) between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Marcin Postolak

An exact de Sitter solution of scalar-tensor gravity is found, in which the non-minimal coupling scalar is rolling along a non-constant potential. Based on this solution, a dust-filled FRW universe is explored in frame of scalar-tensor…

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