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The existence of initial singularities in expanding universes is proved without assuming the timelike convergence condition. The assumptions made in the proof are ones likely to hold both in open universes and in many closed ones. (It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Arvind Borde

We consider a scenario where the strong coupling constant was changing in the early universe. We attribute this change to a variation in the colour charge within a Bekenstein-like model. Treating the vacuum gluon condensate $<G^2>$ as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Chamoun , S. J. Landau , H. Vucetich

In the framework of Born-Infeld inspired gravity theories, which deviates from General Relativity (GR) in the high curvature regime, we discuss the viability of Cosmic Inflation without scalar fields. For energy densities higher than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-10 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Lavinia Heisenberg , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Christophe Ringeval

We propose a non-oscillatory no-scale supergravity model of inflation (NO-NO inflation) in which the inflaton does not oscillate at the end of the inflationary era. Instead, the Universe is then dominated by the inflaton kinetic energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 John Ellis , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

We discuss various models of inflationary universe with $\Omega \not = 1$. A homogeneous universe with $\Omega > 1$ may appear due to creation of the universe "from nothing" in the theories where the effective potential becomes very steep…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Andrei Linde , Arthur Mezhlumian

In the first part of this paper, we outline the construction of an inflationary cosmology in the framework where inflation is described by a universally evolving scalar field, with the Lagrangian ${\cal L}_\phi=-{1/2}(\partial\phi)^2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Ishwaree P. Neupane , Christoph Scherer

By ignoring the local density fluctuations, we construct an uniform Higgs-field's (inflaton's) quantum theory with varying effective Planck constant ($\hbar_{v}(t) \propto R(t)^{-3}$) for the evolution of the dark energy density during the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Yuan , Yu-xin Liu

One resolution of the ancient cosmic singularity, i.e., the Big Bang Singularity (BBS), is to assume an inflationary stage preceded by a long enough static state in which the universe and its physical properties would oscillate around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Hamid Shabani , Avik De , Tee-How Loo

The aim of this paper is to show, that the 'oscillating universe' is a viable alternative to inflation. We remind that this model provides a natural solution to the flatness or entropy and to the horizon problem of standard cosmology. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Ruth Durrer , Joachim Laukenmann

We consider a noncommutative (NC) inflationary model with a homogeneous scalar field minimally coupled to gravity. The particular NC inflationary setting produces entirely new consequences. We first analyze the free field case and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-01 S. M. M. Rasouli , N. Saba , M. Farhoudi , J. Marto , P. Moniz

It is commonly believed that our Universe has experienced two different stages of accelerated expansion. The early stage is known as inflation and the current acceleration is driven by dark energy. Observing inflation and dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-Qing Xia , Gong-Bo Zhao , Bo Feng , Xinmin Zhang

We consider an inflationary universe scenario with multiple stages of inflation. The primary inflation, which may start at the Planck epoch, is followed by secondary inflations, which include the cosmological inflation that causes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -I. Izawa

Phantom Cosmology provides an unique opportunity to "connect" the phantom driven (low en- ergy meV scale) dark energy phase to the (high energy GUT scale) inflationary era. This is possible because the energy density increases in phantom…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Cosmin Ilie , Tirthabir Biswas , Katherine Freese

We consider General Relativity with matter and radiation, one of these fluids being coupled to vacuum. We find that Universe dynamics starts by an inflation phase if the coupled fluid has a negative energy density at early time. Then, there…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-15 Stéphane Fay

We explore the possibility of describing our universe with a singularity--free, closed, spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmological model, using only general relativity and a suitable equation of state which produces an inflationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-01 S. S. Bayin , F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

In the present model, a unified picture of cosmology from early inflation to late acceleration is obtained from $ f(R)-$ gravity with non-linear terms $ R^2 $ and $ R^5 $ of scalar curvature $R$. It is discussed that elementary particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-12 S. K. Srivastava

In many interesting models, including superstring theories, a negative vacuum energy is predicted. Although this effect is usually regarded as undesirable from a cosmological point of view, we show that this can be the basis for a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Guendelman , A. B. Kaganovich

In this paper we take matter source with non-linear Equation of state (EoS) that has produced non-singular Emergent cosmology for spatially flat universe in General Relativity and minimally coupled scalar field with two different potentials…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-23 Rikpratik Sengupta , B. C. Paul , M. Kalam , P. Paul , A. Aich

We study a nonsingular bounce inflation model, which can drive the early universe from a contracting phase, bounce into an ordinary inflationary phase, followed by the reheating process. Besides the bounce that avoided the Big-Bang…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Taotao Qiu , Yu-Tong Wang

We discuss a new scenario for early cosmology, when inflationary de Sitter phase dynamically emergent. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a (conjectured) strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky