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Within the scope of Bianchi type-III spacetime we study the role of spinor field on the evolution of the Universe as well as the influence of gravity on the spinor field. In doing so we have considered a polynomial type of nonlinearity. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-16 Bijan Saha

Perturbation of gravitational fields may be decomposed into scalar,vector and tensor components.In this paper we concern with the evolution of tensor mode perturbations in a spatially closed deSitter background of RW form. It may be thought…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Amir H. Abbassi , J. Khodagholizadeh , Amir M. Abbassi

In this paper we consider conformally flat perturbations on the Friedmann Lemaitre Robertson Walker (FLRW) spacetime containing a general matter field. Working with the linearised field equations, we unearth some important geometrical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Roger Mayala , Rituparno Goswami , Sunil D. Maharaj

This article investigates the predictions of an inflationary phase starting from a homogeneous and anisotropic universe of the Bianchi I type. After discussing the evolution of the background spacetime, focusing on the number of e-folds and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Cyril Pitrou , Thiago S. Pereira , Jean-Philippe Uzan

This review presents, in a self-consistent manner, those analytical tools that are relevant for the analysis of the physics of CMB anisotropies generated in different theoretical models of the early Universe. After introducing the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Giovannini

It is believed that the recent detection of large tensor perturbations strongly favors the inflation scenario in the early universe. This common sense depends on the assumption that Einstein's general relativity is valid at the early…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Mingzhe Li

We study FRW cosmology for scalar tensor theory where two scalar functions nonminimally coupled to the geometry and matter Lagrangian. In a framework to study stability and attractor solutions of the model in the phase space, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-22 Hossein Farajollahi , Amin Salehi , Mohammad Nasiri

We analyse the cosmological evolution of a generalised axion-like field that drives the late-time acceleration of the Universe. This model can exhibit tracking behaviour, which alleviates the coincidence problem. The cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Carlos G. Boiza , Mariam Bouhmadi-López

Despite having a reasonably successful account of accelerated cosmology, understanding the early evolution of Universe has always been difficult for mankind. Our promising strategy is based on a novel class of symmetric teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 L. Anjana Devi , S. Surendra Singh , Leishingam Kumrah , Md Khurshid Alam

After introducing gauge-invariant cosmological perturbation theory we give an improved set of governing equations for multiple fluids including energy transfer. Having defined adiabatic and entropic perturbations we derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karim A. Malik

A new method for modelling spherically symmetric inhomogeneities is applied to the formation of clusters in an expanding Universe. We impose simple initial velocity and density perturbations of finite extent and we investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Dabrowski , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby , C. J. L. Doran

During the inflationary epoch,geometry of the universe may be described by quasi-de Sitter space. On the other hand,maximally extended de Sitter metric in the comoving coordinates accords with a special FLRW model with positive spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-20 A. A. Asgari , A. H. Abbassi

We investigate the evolution of cosmological anisotropies within the framework of $f\left(G\right)$-gravity. Specifically, we consider a locally rotationally symmetric geometry in four-dimensional spacetime that describes the Bianchi I,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 R. Bogadi , A. Giacomini , M. Govender , C. Hansraj , G. Leon , A. Paliathanasis

Quantum fluctuations in spacetime can, in some cases, lead to distortion in astronomical images of faraway objects. In particular, a stochastic model of quantum gravity predicts an accumulated fluctuation in the path length $\Delta L$ with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Vincent S. H. Lee , Kathryn M. Zurek , Yanbei Chen

We discuss metric perturbations produced during a period of inflation in the early universe where two scalar fields evolve. The final scalar perturbation spectrum can be calculated in terms of the perturbed expansion along neighbouring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Wands , Juan Garcia-Bellido

We study Bianchi I type brane cosmologies with scalar matter self-interacting through combinations of exponential potentials. Such models correspond in some cases to inflationary universes. We discuss the conditions for accelerated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Aguirregabiria , Ruth Lazkoz

This thesis is centered on three main subjects within the theory of inflation and cosmological perturbations: loop corrections to the power spectrum of curvature fluctuations generated during inflation; evolution of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-13 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni

We investigate whether the extra scalar degree of freedom that arises in the second connection class of scalar-tensor non-metricity gravity can accurately replicate and potentially enrich the cosmic expansion history. Focusing on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Ghulam Murtaza , Avik De , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Tee-How Loo

We consider scalar-tensor theories of gravity in an accelerating universe. The equations for the background evolution and the perturbations are given in full generality for any parametrization of the Lagrangian, and we stress that apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Esposito-Farese , D. Polarski

Nonlocal RT gravity is a successful modified gravity theory, which not only explains the late-time cosmic acceleration but also behaves well in the solar system. Previous analysis generally assumes the auxiliary field $S_i$ vanishes at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-06 S. X. Tian , Zong-Hong Zhu