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We study properties of a scalar quantum field theory on two-dimensional noncommutative space-times. Contrary to the common belief that noncommutativity of space-time would be a key to remove the ultraviolet divergences, we show that field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Chaichian , A. Demichev , P. Presnajder

We investigate self-similar scalar field solutions to the Einstein equations in whole cylinder symmetry. Imposing self-similarity on the spacetime gives rise to a set of single variable functions describing the metric. Furthermore, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-07 Eoin Condron , Brien C. Nolan

We discuss quantum inequalities for minimally coupled scalar fields in static spacetimes. These are inequalities which place limits on the magnitude and duration of negative energy densities. We derive a general expression for the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Michael J. Pfenning , L. H. Ford

We examine quantum field theory in spacetimes that are time nonorientable but have no other causal pathology. These are Lorentzian universes-from-nothing, spacetimes with a single spacelike boundary that nevertheless have a smooth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 John L. Friedman , Atsushi Higuchi

Effective field theories in flat space and in anti-de Sitter space are constrained by causality and unitarity, often in the form of positivity bounds. Similar bounds have been harder to demonstrate in cosmological backgrounds, where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-24 Daniel Green , Yiwen Huang , Chia-Hsien Shen , Daniel Baumann

We investigate varies correlation functions of modular Hamiltonians defined with respect to spatial regions in quantum field theories. These correlation functions are divergent in general. We extract finite correlators by removing divergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Jiang Long

The idea that the cosmological term, Lambda, should be a time dependent quantity in cosmology is a most natural one. It is difficult to conceive an expanding universe with a strictly constant vacuum energy density, namely one that has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Joan Sola

The space of inflationary models is vast, containing wide varieties of mechanisms, symmetries, and spectra of particles. Consequently, the space of observational signatures is similarly complex. Hence, it is natural to look for boundaries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-29 Daniel Green , Enrico Pajer

We review recent results concerning the spherically symmetric Einstein-scalar field system with positive cosmological constant. We do so by comparing with the classical results of Christodoulou concerning the asymptotically flat case…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-02 João L. Costa

The collapse scenario of a scalar field along with a perfect fluid distribution is investigated for a conformally flat spacetime. The theorem for the integrability of an anharmonic oscillator has been utilized. For a pure power law…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Soumya Chakrabarti , Narayan Banerjee

The present paper is the companion of [1] in which we proposed a scheme that tries to derive the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on Curved Spacetimes (CST) limit from background independent Quantum General Relativity (QGR). The constructions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Thiemann

Quantum field theories with quenched disorder are so hard to study that even exactly solvable free theories present puzzling aspects. We consider a free scalar field $\phi$ in $d$ dimensions coupled to a random source $h$ with quenched…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Alessandro Piazza , Marco Serone , Emilio Trevisani

It has been noticed that for a large class of cosmological models, the gauge fixing of the time-reparametrization invariance does not completely fix the clock. Instead, the system enjoys a surprising residual Noether symmetry under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Jibril Ben Achour

I investigate spacetime singularities from the point of view of the wavefunction of the universe. In order to extend the classical notion of geodesic incompleteness one has to include the proper time of an observer as a degree of freedom in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Federico Piazza

We study a class of anomalies associated with time-reversal and spatial reflection symmetry in (2+1)D topological phases of matter. In these systems, the topological quantum numbers of the quasiparticles, such as the fusion rules and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-26 Maissam Barkeshli , Meng Cheng

An analogue of the Oppenheimer-Synder collapsing model is treated analytically, where the matter source is a scalar field with an exponential potential. An exact solution is derived followed by matching to a suitable exterior geometry, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Soumya Chakrabarti

The paper deals with cosmological solutions describing different phases of the Universe for the homogeneous and isotropic FLRW model of the Universe with torsion. Normally, torsion field is not suitable for maximally symmetric space time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-30 Akash Bose , Subenoy Chakraborty

We give the necessary and sufficient (local) conditions for a metric tensor to be a non conformally flat spherically symmetric solution. These conditions exclusively involve explicit concomitants of the Riemann tensor. As a direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-19 Joan Josep Ferrando , Juan Antonio Sáez

We discuss the issue of unitarity in particular quantum cosmological models with scalar field. The time variable is recovered, in this context, by using the Schutz's formalism for a radiative fluid. Two cases are considered: a phantom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 C. R. Almeida , A. B. Batista , J. C. Fabris , P. R. L. V. Moniz

We study the relation between two sets of correlators in interacting quantum field theory on de Sitter space. The first are correlators computed using in-in perturbation theory in the expanding cosmological patch of de Sitter space (also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Atsushi Higuchi , Donald Marolf , Ian A. Morrison