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A nonsingular emergent universe cosmology can be realized by a nonconventional spinor field as first developed in \cite{Cai:2012yf}. We study the mechanisms of generating scale-invariant primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-11 Yi-Fu Cai , Youping Wan , Xinmin Zhang

Tensor models play an increasingly prominent role in many fields, notably in machine learning. In several applications, such as community detection, topic modeling and Gaussian mixture learning, one must estimate a low-rank signal from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 José Henrique de Morais Goulart , Romain Couillet , Pierre Comon

We study a model of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity, with a specific potential energy for the scalar field, and include curvature and radiation as two additional parameters. Our goal is to obtain analytically the complete set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Itzhak Bars , Shih-Hung Chen , Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

We study symmetry of space-time in presence of a minimally coupled scalar field interacting with a Kalb--Ramond tensor fields in a homogeneous but initially anisotropic universe. The analysis is performed for the two relevant cases of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Di Grezia , G. Mangano , G. Miele

This paper undertakes a conceptual re-examination of several foundational elements of cosmology through the lens of spacetime symmetries. A new derivation of the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker metric is obtained by a careful…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Lavinia Heisenberg

General equations of the unified field theory, obtained using the curved and torsional space-time, are presented. They contain only independent geometrical parameters (metric and connections) of the metric-affine space, and describe the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Alex Karpelson

Isotropic Gaussian random fields on the sphere are characterized by Karhunen-Lo\`{e}ve expansions with respect to the spherical harmonic functions and the angular power spectrum. The smoothness of the covariance is connected to the decay of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Annika Lang , Christoph Schwab

The theory of fully developed turbulence is usually considered in an idealized homogeneous and isotropic state. Real turbulent flows exhibit the effects of anisotropic forcing. The analysis of correlation functions and structure functions…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Itai Arad , Victor S. L'vov , Itamar Procaccia

We investigate the cosmological dynamics in a spatially flat Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker geometry in scalar-tensor and scalar-torsion theories where the nonminimally coupled scalar field is a complex field. We derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Andronikos Paliathanasis

We present a method for parametrizing linear cosmological perturbations of theories of gravity, around homogeneous and isotropic backgrounds. The method is sufficiently general and systematic that it can be applied to theories with any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Macarena Lagos , Tessa Baker , Pedro G. Ferreira , Johannes Noller

We construct a family of measures for random fields based on the iterated subdivision of simple geometric shapes (triangles, squares, tetrahedrons) into a finite number of similar shapes. The intent is to construct continuum limits of scale…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-05 Arnab Kar , S. G. Rajeev

In the context of mathematical cosmology, the study of necessary and sufficient conditions for a semi-Riemannian manifold to be a (generalised) Robertson-Walker space-time is important. In particular, it is a requirement for the development…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Kostas Tzanavaris , Pau Amaro Seoane

We present $N$-body cosmlogical simulations in the framework of the Newtonian limit of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The scalar field is described by a modified Helmholtz equation with a source that is coupled to the standard Poisson…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. A. Rodriguez-Meza

In the SU(2)_{L} x U(1)_{Y} standard electroweak theory coupled with the Einstein gravity, new topological configurations naturally emerge, if the spatial section of the universe is globally a three-sphere(S^3) with a small radius. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroki Emoto , Yutaka Hosotani , Takahiro Kubota

We consider here a spherically symmetric but inhomogeneous universe filled with a massless scalar field. The model obeys two constraints. The first one is that the gradient of the scalar field is timelike everywhere. The second constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-20 Swastik Bhattacharya , Pankaj S. Joshi , Ken-ichi Nakao

Eigenvectors of stress-energy tensor (the source in Einstein's equations) form privileged bases in description of the corresponding space-times. When one or more of these vector fields are rotating (the property well determined in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 Nikolai V. Mitskievich , Héctor Vargas-Rodríguez

In this paper we examine the evolution of the effective field theory describing a conifold transition in type IIB string theory. Previous studies have considered such dynamics starting from the cosmological approximation of homogeneous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Palti , Paul Saffin , Jon Urrestilla

We present an anisotropic cosmological model based on a new exact solution of Einstein equations. The matter content consists of an anisotropic scalar field minimally coupled to gravity and of two isotropic perfect fluids that represent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Saulo Carneiro , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan

We consider tessellations of the Euclidean $(d-1)$-sphere by $(d-2)$-dimensional great subspheres or, equivalently, tessellations of Euclidean $d$-space by hyperplanes through the origin; these we call conical tessellations. For random…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Daniel Hug , Rolf Schneider