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Wheeler-DeWitt equation is applied to $k > 0$ Friedmann Robertson Walker metric with various types of matter. It is shown that if the Universe ends in the matter dominated era (e.g., radiation or pressureless gas) with zero cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Jong Hyun Kung

Quantum cosmology based on the Wheeler De Witt equation represents a simple way to implement plausible quantum effects in a gravitational setup. In its minisuperspace version wherein one restricts attention to FLRW metrics with a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-05 Patrick Peter

This paper discusses the problem of inflation in the context of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cosmology. We show how, after a simple change of variables, one can quantize the problem in a way which parallels the classical discussion. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marvin Weinstein , Ratin Akhoury

Asymptotic properties of electromagnetic waves are studied within the context of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology. Electromagnetic fields are considered as small perturbations on the background spacetime and Maxwell's equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nader Haghighipour

In the present work, we study the noncommutative version of a quantum cosmology model. The model has a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker geometry, the matter content is a radiative perfect fluid and the spatial sections have positive constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-05 G. Oliveira-Neto , G. A. Monerat , E. V. Corrêa Silva , C. Neves , L. G. Ferreira Filho

We construct an extension of standard flat FLRW cosmology with matter, possessing local D = 1, N = 1 proper-time supersymmetry. The fundamental equation for the resulting mini-superspace models of quantum universes is a Dirac-like analogue…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 M. P. Bogers , J. W. van Holten

In this work, we provide some simple analytical solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the minisuperspace applied to de Broglie-Bohmian quantum cosmology for particular potentials of a scalar matter field $\phi$. One solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Chia-Min Lin

In this investigation we discuss the dynamical aspects of Kaluza-Klein FRW type cosmological model in the presence of dark energy fluid and an attractive massive scalar field. The field equations are solved using a power law between the…

General Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 D. R. K. Reddy , K. Deniel Raju

We study flat Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) models with a perfect fluid matter source and a scalar field minimally coupled to matter with power-law-exponential \textquotedblleft hybrid\textquotedblright potential. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Koralia Tzanni , John Miritzis

We discuss flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric-affine cosmology where the metric and connection as well as the matter energy-momentum and hypermomentum all obey the symmetry of spatial homogeneity and isotropy. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Ilaria Andrei , Damianos Iosifidis , Laur Järv , Margus Saal

A stiff matter-dominated universe modeled by a free massless scalar field minimally coupled to gravity in a Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) geometry is quantized. Generalized complex-width gaussian superpositions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Felipe T. Falciano , Nelson Pinto-Neto , E. Sergio Santini

A Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with dark energy can be modelled using a quintessence field. That system is equivalent to a relativistic particle moving on a two-dimensional conformal spacetime. When the quintessence behaves as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Felipe A. Asenjo , Sergio A. Hojman

In this work we present some cosmologically relevant solutions using the spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime in metric $f(R)$ gravity where the form of the gravitational Lagrangian is given by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Pritha Bari , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Saikat Chakraborty

We discuss massive scalar field with conformal coupling in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) Universe of special type with constant electromagnetic field. Treating an external gravitational-electromagnetic background exactly, at first time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , S. D. Odintsov

We show that the solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in a homogeneous and isotropic universe are given by triconfluent Heun functions for the spatially closed, flat, and open geometries of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe filled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-18 H. S. Vieira , V. B. Bezerra

We study the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe with pressureless dust (modeled via the Brown-Kucha\v{r} formalism) and a dynamical cosmological constant $\Lambda$ treated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Harkirat Singh Sahota , Dipayan Mukherjee , S. Shankaranarayanan

This work deals with chameleon field cosmology (a scalar field nonminimally coupled to cold dark matter) in the background of flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) space-time. Both classical and quantum cosmology have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Roshni Bhaumik , Sourav Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

The present work deals with a multi-field cosmological model in a spatially flat FLRW space-time geometry. The usual Brans-Dicke(BD) field and another scalar field are minimally coupled to gravity while they interact with each other through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Dipankar Laya , Sourav Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

We study the effects of an information-theoretically motivated nonlinear correction to the Wheeler-deWitt equation in the minisuperspace scheme for flat, $k=0$, Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universes. When the only matter is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Le-Huy Nguyen , Rajesh R. Parwani

For a FRW-spacetime coupled to an arbitrary real scalar field, we endow the solution space of the associated Wheeler-DeWitt equation with a Hilbert-space structure, construct the observables, and introduce the physical wave functions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ali Mostafazadeh