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The cosmological viability of varying $G\left( t\right) $ and $\Lambda \left( t\right) $ cosmology is discussed by determining the cosmological eras provided by the theory. Such a study is performed with the determination of the critical…

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Among the recent extensions to standard General Relativity, $f(R,\mathcal{L}_m)$ gravity has risen an interest given the possibility of coupling between geometry and matter. We examine the simplest model with non-minimal coupling in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-02 Sergio Bravo Medina , Marek Nowakowski , Ronaldo V. Lobato , Davide Batic

The standard relation between the cosmological redshift and cosmic scale factor underlies cosmological inference from virtually all kinds of cosmological observations, leading to the emergence of the LambdaCDM cosmological model. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-08 Radosław Wojtak , Francisco Prada

In dynamical system describing evolution of universe with the flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker symmetry filled with barotropic dust matter and non-minimally coupled scalar field with a constant potential function an invariant manifold of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Orest Hrycyna

In the paper, we have presented a higher-dimensional cosmological model with a generalized Chaplygin-type gas to explain the recent acceleration of the universe. Dimensional reduction is feasible in this model, and our solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 D. Panigrahi , B. C. Paul , S. Chatterjee

Interactions between cosmic fluids may appear in many cosmological scenarios that go far beyond the usually studied energy exchange in the dark sector. In the absence of known microscopic interaction mechanisms, phenomenological ansatzes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-28 M. R. G. Maia , N. Pires , H. S. Gimenes

We propose a new class of gravity theories which are characterized by a nontrivial coupling between the gravitational metric and matter mediated by an auxiliary rank-2 tensor. The actions generating the field equations are constructed so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-05 Justin C. Feng , Sante Carloni

In the minimal formulation of gravity with Lifshitz-type anisotropic scaling, the gauge symmetries of the system are foliation-preserving diffeomorphisms of spacetime. Consequently, compared to general relativity, the spectrum contains an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Petr Horava , Charles M. Melby-Thompson

In this study, we consider three dark energy models in which $\Lambda$ is not constant, but has a dynamic nature that depends on the Hubble parameter $H$ and/or its time derivative $\dot{H}$. We analyze the generalized running vacuum model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Christine R. Farrugia , Joseph Sultana , Jurgen Mifsud

We extend field-level inference to jointly constrain the cosmological parameters $\{A,\omega_{\rm cdm},H_0\}$, in both real and redshift space. Our analyses are based on mock data generated using a perturbative forward model, with noise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Marko Simonović , Shi-Fan Chen , Giovanni Cabass , Matias Zaldarriaga

We consider the equivalence problem for cosmological models in four-dimensional gravity theories. A cosmological model is considered as a triple $(M, {\bf g},{\bf u})$ consisting of a spacetime $(M, {\bf g})$ and a preferred normalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-03 Lode Wylleman , Alan Coley , David McNutt , Matthew Aadne

The standard cosmological model is based on general relativity and includes dark matter and dark energy. An important prediction of this model is a fixed relationship between the gravitational potentials responsible for gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pengjie Zhang , Michele Liguori , Rachel Bean , Scott Dodelson

The existence of a small, non-zero cosmological constant is one of the major puzzles in fundamental physics. Naively, quantum field theory arguments would imply a cosmological constant which is up to 10$^{120}$ times larger than the…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Michael Bishop , Joey Contreras , Peter Martin , Douglas Singleton

We discuss some cosmological consequences of a general model of coupled quintessence in which the phenomenological coupling between the cold dark matter and dark energy is a function of the cosmic scale factor $\epsilon(a)$. This class of…

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We have shown that the varying physical constant model is consistent with the recently published variational approach wherein Einstein equations are modified to include the variation of the speed of light c, gravitational constant G and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-21 Rajendra P. Gupta

We discuss models that can account for today's dark energy. The underlying cosmological constant may be Planck scale but starts as a redundant coupling which can be eliminated by a field redefinition. The observed vacuum energy arises when…

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While the standard, six-parameter, spatially flat $\Lambda$CDM model has been highly successful, certain anomalies in the cosmic microwave background bring out a tension between this model and observations. The statistical significance of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-21 Abhay Ashtekar , Brajesh Gupt , V. Sreenath

The main foundations of the standard $\Lambda $CDM model of cosmology are that: 1) The redshifts of the galaxies are due to the expansion of the Universe plus peculiar motions; 2) The cosmic microwave background radiation and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We use a conformal transformation to find solutions to the generalised scalar-tensor theory, with a coupling constant dependent on a scalar field, in an empty Bianchi type I model. We describe the dynamical behaviour of the metric functions…

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