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We explore the cosmological model in which a late-time mild inflation is realized after the star formation epoch. Non-vanishing curvature coupling of a classical boson field yields this mild inflation without a cosmological constant.…

Recent measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation have shown an apparent tension with the present value of the Hubble parameter inferred from local observations of supernovae, which look closer, i.e. brighter, than what…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 Antonio Enea Romano , Sergio Andrés Vallejo

In this paper we specifically studied one aspect of foreground primordial matter density perturbations: the relative gravitational time delay between a pair of light paths converging towards an observer and originating from two points on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-07 Richard Lieu , Jonathan P. D. Mittaz

We present a model-independent measurement of spatial curvature $\Omega_{k}$ in the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe, based on observations of the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ using cosmic chronometers, and a Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-23 Cheng-Zong Ruan , Fulvio Melia , Yu Chen , Tong-Jie Zhang

We show that the difference between the theoretically expected and measured by WMAP amplitude of the quadrupole fluctuations of CMB can be related to the impact of the anisotropic curvature of the homogeneous universe dominated by the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Demiański , A. G. Doroshkevich

We argue that the preferred classical variables that emerge from a pure quantum state are determined by its entanglement structure in the form of redundant records: information shared between many subsystems. Focusing on the early universe,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-13 Elliot Nelson , C. Jess Riedel

Current measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$ on scale less than $\sim100$ Mpc appear to be controversial, while the observations made at high redshift seem to provide a relatively low value. On the other hand, the Hubble expansion is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xiang-Ping Wu , Bo Qin , Li-Zhi Fang

In this paper, we propose an improved model-independent method to constrain the cosmic curvature by combining the most recent Hubble parameter $H(z)$ and supernovae Ia (SNe Ia) data. Based on the $H(z)$ data, we first use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Several conserved and/or gauge invariant quantities described as the second-order curvature perturbation have been given in the literature. We revisit various scenarios for the generation of second-order non-gaussianity in the primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David H. Lyth , Yeinzon Rodriguez

We consider a model of modified gravity from the nonperturbative quantization of a metric. We obtain the modified gravitational field equations and the modified conservational equations. We apply it to the FLRW spacetime and find that due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-20 Rong-Jia Yang

We study the effect of global topology of the spatial geometry on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) for closed flat and closed hyperbolic models in which the spatial hypersurface is multiply connected. If the CMB temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-06 Kaiki Taro Inoue

We investigate density perturbations sourced by a curvaton with a generic energy potential. The key feature of a curvaton potential which deviates from a quadratic is that the curvaton experiences a non-uniform onset of its oscillation.…

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This study explores the impact of cosmic curvature on structure formation through general relativistic first-order perturbation theory. We analyze continuity and Euler equations, incorporating cosmic curvature into Einstein equations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-29 Bikash R. Dinda

We use cosmological perturbation theory to study the backreaction effects of a self-consistent and well-defined cosmological averaging on the dynamics and the evolution of the Universe. Working with a perturbed…

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We discuss the evolution of linear perturbations about a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background metric, using only the local conservation of energy-momentum. We show that on sufficiently large scales the curvature perturbation on spatial…

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We show that in generic supergravity theories the mass of the moduli during inflation is larger (or at least of the same order of magnitude) than the Hubble constant. This fact does not depends on the details of the inflation and on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-29 Gia Dvali

Local-type primordial non-Gaussianity couples statistics of the curvature perturbation \zeta on vastly different physical scales. Because of this coupling, statistics (i.e. the polyspectra) of \zeta in our Hubble volume may not be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marilena LoVerde , Elliot Nelson , Sarah Shandera

Modern cosmology relies on the assumption of large-scale isotropy and homogeneity of the Universe. However, locally the Universe is inhomogeneous and anisotropic. So, how can local measurements (at the 100 Mpc scale) be used to determine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-21 Alexander Wiegand , Dominik J. Schwarz

The last decade has seen increasing efforts to circumscribe and bound the cosmological Hubble flow in terms of model-independent constraints on the cosmological fluid - such as, for instance, the classical energy conditions of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Celine Cattoen , Matt Visser

We investigate if the observed small and nearly scale-invariant primordial cosmic perturbation, i.e. the perturbation amplitude $P_\zeta\sim10^{-9}$ and the spectral index $n_s \simeq 0.965$, is typical in the landscape of vacua after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Chien-I Chiang , Keisuke Harigaya