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The discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating in time is a major discovery which still awaits adequate explanation. It is generally agreed that this implies a cosmic repulsion as a result of the existence of a…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. F. O'Connell

Recently a Hamiltonian formulation for the evolution of the universe dominated by multiple oscillatory scalar fields was developed by the present author and was applied to the investigation of the evolution of cosmological perturbations on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Takashi Hamazaki

Observations indicate that our universe is characterized by a late-time accelerating phase, possibly driven by a cosmological constant $\Lambda$, with the dimensionless parameter $\Lambda L_P^2 \simeq 10^{-122}$, where $L_P = (G \hbar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-04 T. Padmanabhan , Hamsa Padmanabhan

A mechanism for suppressing the cosmological constant is described, using a superconducting analogy in which fermions coupled to gravitons are in an unstable false vauum. The coupling of the fermions to gravitons and a screened attractive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. W. Moffat

We consider further consequences of recently [1] revealed role of cosmological constant \Lambda as of a physical constant, along with the gravitational one to define the gravity i.e. the General Relativity and its low-energy limit. We now…

General Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. Stepanian

General Relativity allows for a cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) which has inspired models of cosmic Inflation and Dark Energy. We show instead that $r_\Lambda = \sqrt{3/\Lambda}$ corresponds to an event horizon: a causal boundary term in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Enrique Gaztanaga

Bouncing models have been proposed by many authors as a completion, or even as an alternative to inflation for the description of the very early and dense Universe. However, most bouncing models contain a contracting phase from a very large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-31 Rodrigo Maier , Stella Pereira , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Beatriz B. Siffert

Astronomical observations have shown that the expansion of the universe is at present accelerating, in a way consistent with the presence of a positive cosmological constant. This is a major puzzle, because we do not understand: why the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jordi Miralda-Escude

In a model of the late-time cosmic acceleration within the framework of generalized Proca theories, there exists a de Sitter attractor preceded by the dark energy equation of state $w_{\rm DE}=-1-s$, where $s$ is a positive constant. We run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 Antonio De Felice , Lavinia Heisenberg , Shinji Tsujikawa

The paper presents the transition of universe from early decelerating phase to current accelerating phase with viscous fluid and time dependent cosmological constant $(\Lambda)$ as source of matter in Bianchi-V space-time. To study the…

General Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 Anil Kumar Yadav

Massive vector fields feature in several areas of particle physics, e.g., as carriers of weak interactions, dark matter candidates, or as an effective description of photons in a plasma. Here we investigate vector fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-14 Katy Clough , Thomas Helfer , Helvi Witek , Emanuele Berti

There are now evidences that the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ has a non-zero positive value. Alternative scenarios to a pure cosmological constant model are provided by quintessence, an effective negative pressure fluid permeating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antonio Vale , Jose' P. S. Lemos

In this study, we investigate the quasinormal modes, pseudospectrum and time evolution of a massive vector field around a quantum corrected black hole in de-Sitter spacetime. We start by parameterization and using orthonormal tetrads to get…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Shu Luo

Structure formation models with a cosmological constant are successful in explaining large-scale structure data, but are threatened by the magnitude-redshift relation for Type Ia supernovae. This has led to discussion of models where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Pedro T P Viana , Andrew R Liddle

In this work we study the evolution of matter-density perturbations for an arbitrary $\Lambda(t)$ model, and specialize our analysis to the particular phenomenological law $\Lambda = \Lambda_0 + 3\beta H^2$. We study the evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-01 Dennis Bessada , Oswaldo D. Miranda

We have studied the closed universe model with the variable cosmological term, which is presented as a sum of two terms: Lambda=Lambda_0 -k R. First term Lambda_0 is a constant and it is describing a sum of quantum field's zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. I. Fomin , P. A. Nakaznoy , S. I. Vilchinskyi

On the basis of qualitative analysis of the system of differential equations of the standard cosmological model it is shown that in the case of zero cosmological constant this system has a stable center corresponding to zero values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-29 Yurii Ignat'ev

We use the phase plane analysis technique of Madsen and Ellis to consider a universe with a true cosmological constant as well as a cosmological "constant" that is decaying. Time symmetric dynamics for the inflationary era allows eternally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 George F. R. Ellis , Emma Platts , David Sloan , Amanda Weltman

The cosmological constant $\Lambda$ is a free parameter in Einstein's equations of gravity. We propose to fix its value with a boundary condition: test particles should be free when outside causal contact, e.g. at infinity. Under this…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Enrique Gaztanaga

The evolution of the wave function in quantum mechanics is deterministic like that of classical waves. Only when we bring in observers the fundamentally different quantum reality emerges. Similarly the introduction of observers changes the…

General Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Jan O. Stenflo