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We track the evolution of entropy and black holes in a cyclic universe that undergoes repeated intervals of expansion followed by slow contraction and a smooth (non-singular) bounce. In this kind of cyclic scenario, there is no big crunch…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-09 Anna Ijjas , Paul J. Steinhardt

We investigate the emergence of cosmic hysteresis in cyclic bouncing cosmologies within the framework of $f(R)$ modified gravity theories. Building upon previous studies that explored hysteresis phenomena in braneworld and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-12 Aritra Sanyal

Cosmological hysteresis is a purely thermodynamical phenomenon caused by the gradient in pressure, hence the characteristic equation of state during the expansion and contraction phases of the universe are different, provided that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-10 Sayantan Choudhury , Shreya Banerjee

In this paper, in an extended theory of gravity, we have presented bouncing cosmological model at the backdrop of an isotropic, homogeneous space-time, in presence of general relativistic hydrodynamics (GRH). The scale factor has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 A. Y. Shaikh , Sankarsan Tarai , S. K. Tripathy , B. Mishra

We propose a new five-parameter entropy function that proves to be singular-free during the entire cosmic evolution of the universe, and at the same time, also generalizes the Tsallis, Barrow, R\'{e}nyi, Sharma-Mittal, Kaniadakis and Loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Sergei D. Odintsov , Tanmoy Paul

Given the lack of an absolute time parameter in general relativistic systems, quantum cosmology often describes the expansion of the universe in terms of relational changes between two degrees of freedom, such as matter and geometry.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-16 Luis Martinez , Martin Bojowald , Garrett Wendel

What happens to the most general closed oscillating universes in general relativity? We sketch the development of interest in cyclic universes from the early work of Friedmann and Tolman to modern variations introduced by the presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-08 John D. Barrow , Chandrima Ganguly

We investigate the validity of cosmological models with an oscillating scale factor in relation to late-time cosmological observations. We show that these models not only meet the required late time observational constraints but can also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Mohit K. Sharma , Shibesh Kumar Jas Pacif , Gulmira Yergaliyeva , Kuralay Yesmakhanova

An oscillating universe cycles through a series of expansions and contractions. We propose a model in which ``phantom'' energy with $p < -\rho$ grows rapidly and dominates the late-time expanding phase. The universe's energy density is so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Matthew G. Brown , Katherine Freese , William H. Kinney

We examine the behaviour of a closed oscillating universe filled with a homogeneous scalar field and find that, contrary to naive expectations, such a universe expands to larger volumes during successive expansion epochs. This intriguing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Nissim Kanekar , Varun Sahni , Yuri Shtanov

We discuss a cyclic cosmology in which the visible universe, or introverse, is all that is accessible to an observer while the extroverse represents the total spacetime originating from the time when the dark energy began to dominate. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-04 Paul H. Frampton

Existing accounts of the cosmological arrow of time face a dilemma: generalist approaches that posit time-asymmetric laws lack independent motivation, while particularist approaches that invoke a Past Hypothesis face serious conceptual and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Sean Gryb , Simon Friederich

We consider Brans-Dicke cosmology with cosmological constant with negative w parameter and an arbitrary (in general non-vanishing) scale factor at the Big Bang. The field equations describe the flat universe, current observational values…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Darya Tretyakova , Alexander Shatskiy , Igor Novikov , Stanislav Alexeyev

We reconstruct $F(R)$ gravity models with exponential and power-law forms of the scale factor in which bounce cosmology can be realized. We explore the stability of the reconstructed models with analyzing the perturbations from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-10 Kazuharu Bamba , Andrey N. Makarenko , Alexandr N. Myagky , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

The linear cosmological perturbation theory of an almost homogeneous and isotropic perfect fluid universe is reconsidered and formally simplified by introducing new covariant and gauge-invariant variables with physical interpretations on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Winfried Zimdahl

In [1], KKLT give a mechanism to generate de Sitter vacua in string theory. And the scenario, \emph{Landscape}, is suggested to explain the problem of the cosmological constant. In this paper, adopting a simple potential describing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Cheng-Yi Sun , De-Hai Zhang

In this paper, we analyze the anisotropy of the scale factor in the Kantowski-Sachs spacetime. We show that the anisotropy will not increase when the expansion rate is greater than certain values while it will increase when the expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-gang Hao , Xin-zhou Li

In a cyclic entropy model in which the extroverse is jettisoned at turnaround with a Come Back Empty assumption, we address matching of the contraction scale factor $f(t_T)a(t)$ to the expansion scale factor $a(t)$, where $f(t_T)$ is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-17 Paul H. Frampton

General relativity predicts a singularity in the beginning of the universe being called big bang. Recent developments in loop quantum cosmology avoid the singularity and the big bang is replaced by a big bounce. A classical theory of…

General Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Walter Petry

For the anisotropic Universe filled with massless vector field in the General Relativity frame we obtain bouncing solution for one of scale factors. We obtain the Universe with finite maximal energy density, finite value of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Michal Artymowski , Zygmunt Lalak