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We apply Starobinsky's formalism of stochastic inflation to the case of a minimally coupled scalar field with linear self-interaction potential. We solve the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation exactly, and obtain analytical expressions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-10 Grigoris Panotopoulos

The Eisenhart lift allows to formulate the dynamics of a scalar field in a potential as pure geodesic motion in a curved field-space manifold involving an additional fictitious vector field. Making use of the formalism in the context of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Georgios K. Karananas , Marco Michel , Javier Rubio

We study an inflation mechanism based on attractor properties in cosmological evolutions of a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime based on the Einstein-scalar field theory. We find a new way to get the Hamilton-Jacobi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-10 Hyeong-Chan Kim

A simple algebraic method to obtain exact solutions to the scalar field equations in spatially flat FRW cosmology is derived. The field potential fuction is reduced to two terms which can be used to determine some characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-16 Marco A. Reyes

Some exact solutions for the Einstein field equations corresponding to inhomogeneous $G_2$ cosmologies with an exponential-potential scalar field which generalize solutions obtained previously are considered. Several particular cases are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 A. Feinstein , J. Ibáñez , P. Labraga

We further develop the proposal in Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ \textbf{136} 071501 that interprets stochastic inflation as an open quantum system, by constructing the open effective field theory for the reduced density matrix of long wavelength…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Yue-Zhou Li

A comprehensive review of exactly solvable quantum mechanics is presented with the emphasis of the recently discovered multi-indexed orthogonal polynomials. The main subjects to be discussed are the factorised Hamiltonians, the general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 Ryu Sasaki

Using the Ashtekar-Sen variables of loop quantum gravity, a new class of exact solutions to the equations of quantum cosmology is found for gravity coupled to a scalar field, that corresponds to inflating universes. The scalar field, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Stephon Alexander , Justin Malecki , Lee Smolin

We study analytically and numerically the inflationary solutions for various type scalar potentials in the nonminimally coupled scalar field theory. The Hamilton-Jacobi equation is used to deal with nonlinear evolutions of inhomogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Seoktae Koh , Sang Pyo Kim , Doo Jong Song

A perturbative method for solving the Langevin equation of inflationary cosmology in presence of backreaction is presented. In the Gaussian approximation, the method permits an explicit calculation of the probability distribution of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jerome Martin , Marcello Musso

I explore properties of the inflationary flow equations. I show that the flow equations do not correspond directly to inflationary dynamics. Nevertheless, they can be used as a rather complicated algorithm for generating inflationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew R Liddle

We point out that inflationary superhorizon fluctuations can be effectively described by a set of equations analogous to those governing a superfluid. This is achieved through a functional Schr\"odinger approach to the evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-05 Gianmassimo Tasinato

A supersymmetric method for the construction of so-called conditionally exactly solvable quantum systems is reviewed and extended to classical stochastic dynamical systems characterized by a Fokker-Planck equation with drift. A class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Junker

During inflation explicit perturbative computations of quantum field theories which contain massless, non-conformal fields exhibit secular effects that grow as powers of the logarithm of the inflationary scale factor. Starobinskii's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

An exact scalar field cosmological model is constructed from the exact solution of the field equations. The solutions are exact and no approximation like slow roll is used. The model gives inflation, solves horizon and flatness problems.…

General Physics · Physics 2011-12-14 Debasis Biswas

We discuss inflationary solutions of the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a complex field in a five dimensional spacetime with a compact $x^5$-dimension. As a new feature, the scalar field contains a dependence on the extra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. J. van der Bij , Eugen Radu

Quasi-Exactly Solvable Schr\"odinger Equations occupy an intermediate place between exactly-solvable (e.g. the harmonic oscillator and Coulomb problems etc) and non-solvable ones. Their major property is an explicit knowledge of several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Alexander V Turbiner

We study a quantum model with non-isotropic two-dimensional oscillator potential but with additional quadratic interaction $x_1x_2$ with imaginary coupling constant. It is shown, that for a specific connection between coupling constant and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 F. Cannata , M. V. Ioffe , D. N. Nishnianidze

In this work, focused on the production of exact inflationary solutions using dimensional analysis, it is shown how to explain inflation from a pragmatic and basic point of view, in a step-by-step process, starting from the one-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sandro Silva e Costa

We propose functional approach to the stochastic inflationary universe dynamics. It is based on path integral representation of the solution to the differential equation for the scalar field probability distribution. In the saddle-point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 Yuri V. Shtanov