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In a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological model with zero spatial curvature, we consider the interaction of the gravitational waves with the plasma in the presence of a weak magnetic field. Using the relativistic hydromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 D. B. Papadopoulos

The homogeneous Friedman-Lema\^\i tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology of a free scalar field with vanishing cosmological constant was recently shown to be invariant under the one-dimensional conformal group $\textrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-17 Jibril Ben Achour , Etera R. Livine

Model-independent constraints on the spatial curvature are not only closely related to important problems such as the evolution of the Universe and properties of dark energy, but also provide a test of the validity of the fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Zhengxiang Li , Xuheng Ding , Guo-Jian Wang , Kai Liao , Zong-Hong Zhu

In single-metric approximations to the exact renormalization group (RG) for quantum gravity, it has been not been clear how to treat the large curvature domain beyond the point where the effective cutoff scale $k$ is less than the lowest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Tim R. Morris

In this manuscript, we present a number of fascinating explicit reconstructions for the $f(Q)$ gravity from the background of Friedmann-La\^imatre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) evolution history. We find the more general functions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-25 Gaurav N. Gadbail , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo

In this paper, we considered the study of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model in the framework of $f(Q,T)$ gravity, an extension of symmetric teleparallel gravity, recently defined by Y. Xu et al. \cite{Xu}. The non-linear model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C Samanta

We study the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model to investigate non-smooth curvatures associated with multiple discontinuities involved in the evolution of the universe, by exploiting Lorentzian warped product scheme. Introducing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Soon-Tae Hong

There is a no-go theorem forbidding flat and closed FLRW solutions in massive gravity on a flat reference metric, while open solutions are unstable. Recently it was shown that this no-go theorem can be overcome if at least some matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-21 Adam R. Solomon , Jonas Enander , Yashar Akrami , Tomi S. Koivisto , Frank Könnig , Edvard Mörtsell

The conventional $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model supplemented by the inflation concept describes the Universe very well. However, there are still a few concerns: new Planck data impose constraints on the shape of the inflaton potential,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-03 Branislav Vlahovic , Maxim Eingorn , Cosmin Ilie

Here we investigate the cosmic dynamics of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes -- flat spatial sections -- which are driven by nonlinear electrodynamics (NLED) Lagrangians. We pay special attention to the check of the sign of the square…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Ricardo Garcia-Salcedo , Tame Gonzalez , Israel Quiros

The present work analyzes the various conditions in which there can be a bouncing universe solution in f(R) gravity. In the article an interesting method, to analyze the bouncing FRW solutions in a spatially flat universe using f(R) gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-09 Niladri Paul , Saikat Nil Chakrabarty , Kaushik Bhattacharya

In this paper we prove a global existence theorem, in the direction of cosmological expansion, for sufficiently small perturbations of a family of spatially compact variants of the $k=-1$ Friedmann--Robertson--Walker vacuum spacetime. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Andersson , Vincent Moncrief

The spatial curvature of the Universe remains a central question in modern cosmology. In this work, we explore the potential of localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as a novel tool to constrain the cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_k$ in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Gustavo E. Romero

We demonstrate that the high isotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), combined with the Copernican principle, is not sufficient to prove homogeneity of the universe -- in contrast to previous results on this subject. The crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Chris Clarkson , Richard Barrett

Whereas the nature of dark components in the Universe remains unknown, alternative models of gravity have been developed to offer a geometric explanation to the origin of such components. In this work we use the Minimal Geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-03 Francisco X. Linares Cedeño , Ernesto Contreras

We study the late time evolution of flat and negatively curved FRW models with a perfect fluid matter source and a scalar field having an arbitrary non-negative potential function $V(\phi) .$ We prove using a dynamical systems approach four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 John Miritzis

The recently introduced relativistic Lagrangian darkon fluid model (EPJ C (2015) 75:9) is generalized to a self-gravitating, irrotational, pressure-less and stress free geodesic fluid, whose energy-momentum tensor is dust-like with…

General Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 Peter C. Stichel

We revisit the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) constraints on the spatial curvature of the Universe, assessing how they change when the curvature parameter and the primordial inflationary scalar spectrum are treated consistently within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Enrico Specogna , Tatevik Vardanyan , William Giarè , Eleonora Di Valentino

In this paper, a general FRW cosmological model has been constructed in $f(R,T)$ gravity reconstruction with variable cosmological constant. A number of solutions to the field equations has been generated by utilizing a form for the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Nasr Ahmed , Sultan Z. Alamri

We find stable singularity-free cosmological solutions in non-flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime in the context of Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) theory. Although we encounter the negative squared effective masses of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-13 Mitsuhiro Fukushima , Yosuke Misonoh , Shoichiro Miyashita , Seiga Sato