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The inflationary epoch and the late time acceleration of the expansion rate of universe can be explained by assuming a gravitationally coupled scalar field. In this article, we propose a new method of finding exact solutions in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-19 Albin Joseph , Rajib Saha

Holography is expected as one of the promising descriptions of quantum general relativity. We present a model for a cosmological system involving two holographic screens and find that their equilibrium exactly yields a standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Yi-Fu Cai , Jie Liu , Hong Li

Inflationary models usually assume the existence of scalar fields or other exotic gravitational sources. We investigate an alternative approach in which the entire Universe is considered as a thermodynamic system described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-10 Christine Gruber , Hernando Quevedo

The Wheeler--DeWitt equation for a flat and compact Friedmann--Lema\^{i}tre--Robertson--Walker cosmology at the pre-inflation epoch is studied in the contexts of the standard and fractional quantum cosmology. Working within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-17 S. M. M. Rasouli , E. W. Oliveira Costa , P. V. Moniz , S. Jalalzadeh

Informed by a quantum information perspective, we interpret cosmological expansion of space as growing entanglement between underlying degrees of freedom. In particular, we focus on inflationary cosmology, which, while being a successful…

General Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Ashmeet Singh , Olivier Doré

Cosmic inflation, which describes an accelerated expansion of the early Universe, yields the most successful predictions regarding temperature anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Nevertheless, the precise origin of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 Gabriel Leon , Maria Pia Piccirilli

We present a new approach to quintessential inflation, in which both dark energy and inflation are explained by the evolution of a single scalar field. We start from a simple scalar potential with both oscillatory and exponential behavior.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriela Barenboim , Joseph Lykken

An algorithm is used to generate new solutions of the scalar field equations in homogeneous and isotropic universes. Solutions can be found for pure scalar fields with various potentials in the absence and presence of spatial curvature and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 John D. Barrow , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We prove that in the Hartle-Hawking approach to quantum cosmology the existence of an inflationary phase is a general property of minisuperspace models given by a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe containing a massless scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Giampiero Esposito , Giovanni Platania

There exists the "entropy problem" of the early universe, that is, why did the universe begin with an extremely low entropy and how did it evolve into such high entropy at late times? It has been long believed that inflation cannot be the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Pisin Chen , Po-Shen Hsin , Yuezhen Niu

An introductory account is given of the inflationary cosmology, which postulates a period of accelerated expansion during the Universe's earliest stages. The historical motivation is briefly outlined, and the modelling of the inflationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew R Liddle

Inflationary cosmology has made significant strides in understanding the physics driving the rapid expansion of the early universe. However, many inflation models with diverse potential shapes present analysis, comparison, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-25 Somnath Das , P K Suresh

We consider the cosmological application of a (variant of) relatively newly proposed model \cite{1609.06915} unifying inflation, dark energy, dark matter, and the Higgs mechanism. The model was originally defined using additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-21 Denitsa Staicova , Michail Stoilov

In this article we study a constant-roll inflationary model in the context of brane-world cosmology caused by a quintessence scalar field for warm inflation with a constant dissipative parameter Q =$\Gamma$/3H. We determine the analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Mohammad Reza Setare , Arvin Ravanpak , Karam Bahari , Golnaz Farpour Fadakar

The theory of inflation is one of the fundamental and revolutionary developments of modern cosmology that became able to explain many issues of early universe in the context of the standard cosmological model (SCM). However, the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Jaume de Haro , Supriya Pan

We discuss applications of perturbative quantum gravity in the theory of very early quantum Universe and quantum cosmology. Consistency of the theoretical formalism for quantum effects of matter and correspondence with observational status…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-07 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik

At the level of heuristic effective dynamics, we investigate the cosmological inflation with holonomy corrections of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) in the $k=0$ Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model with a single inflaton field subject to a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Dah-Wei Chiou , Kai Liu

In this review I briefly describe the evolution of the inflationary theory from the scenario based on the idea of supercooling and expansion in the false vacuum toward the theory of eternally expanding self-reproducing inflationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Linde

This thesis compiles the results of six works which deal with - inflationary model building and estimation of cosmological parameters from various field theoretic setup, quantification of reheating temperature, studies of leptogenesis in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-12 Sayantan Choudhury

We investigate warm inflation in the framework of $f(Q)$ gravity within a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime. Unlike cold inflation, where the inflaton evolves in isolation, warm inflation features continuous interaction between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Tuhina Ghorui , Prabir Rudra , Farook Rahaman , Behnam Pourhassan