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We present an exact analytical solution of the Einstein equations with cosmological constant in a spatially flat Robertson-Walker metric. This is interpreted as an isotropic Lemaitre-type version of the cosmological Friedmann model.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Ion I. Cotaescu , Dumitru N. Vulcanov

A four-dimensional regularization of Lovelock-Lanczos gravity up to an arbitrary curvature order is considered. We show that Lovelock-Lanczos terms can provide a non-trivial contribution to the Einstein field equations in four dimensions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Alessandro Casalino , Aimeric Colleaux , Massimiliano Rinaldi , Silvia Vicentini

This paper introduces novel solutions for inflation and late-time cosmic acceleration within the framework of quantum Lovelock gravity, utilizing Friedmann equations. Furthermore, we demonstrate the hypergeometric states of cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-23 M. Bousder , A. Riadsolh , M El Belkacemi , H. Ez-Zahraouy

We study spatially homogeneous and isotropic solutions to the equations of motion derived from dilaton gravity, in the presence of a special combination of higher derivative terms in the gravitational action. All solutions are nonsingular.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Brandenberger , Richard Easther , J. Maia

For the description of the Universe expansion, compatible with observational data, a model of modified gravity - Lovelock gravity with dilaton - is investigated. D-dimensional space with 3- and (D-4)-dimensional maximally symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Ilya V. Kirnos , Andrew N. Makarenko

In order to study the properties of Lovelock gravity theories in low dimensions, we define the kth-order Riemann-Lovelock tensor as a certain quantity having a total 4k-indices, which is kth-order in the Riemann curvature tensor and shares…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 David Kastor

This talk is about solving cosmological equations analytically without approximations, and discovering new phenomena that could not be noticed with approximate solutions. We found all the solutions of the Friedmann equations for a specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 Itzhak Bars

A modified-gravity-type model of two hypothetical massless vector fields is presented. These vector fields are gravitationally coupled to standard matter and an effective cosmological constant. Considered in a cosmological context, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-10 V. Emelyanov , F. R. Klinkhamer

We find new, simple cosmological solutions with flat, open, and closed spatial geometries, contrary to the previous wisdom that only the open model is allowed. The metric and the St\"{u}ckelberg fields are given explicitly, showing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Masaru Siino , Masahide Yamaguchi , Daisuke Yoshida

We consider the dynamics of tensor and scalar gravitational fields in the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation with the Minkowskian vacuum metric and generalize the formulation to the massless graviton. The potential of scalar field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Kiselev

In the cosmological scenario in $f\left( T\right) $ gravity, we find analytical solutions for an isotropic and homogeneous universe containing a dust fluid and radiation and for an empty anisotropic Bianchi I universe. The method that we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-01 Andronikos Paliathanasis , John D. Barrow , P. G. L. Leach

In the context of a recently proposed nonlinear massive gravity with Lorentz-invariant mass terms, we investigate open Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universes driven by arbitrary matter source. While the flat FRW solutions were recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-12 A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Chunshan Lin , Shinji Mukohyama

Vacuum solutions of Lovelock gravity in the presence of a recurrent null vector field (a subset of Kundt spacetimes) are studied. We first discuss the general field equations, which constrain both the base space and the profile functions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-08 Marcello Ortaggio

Motivated by conventional gauge theories, we consider a theory of gravity in which the Einstein-Hilbert action is replaced by a term that is quadratic in the Riemann tensor. We focus on cosmological solutions to the field equations in flat,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Lasenby , C. J. L. Doran , R. Heineke

In this work we present some cosmologically relevant solutions using the spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime in metric $f(R)$ gravity where the form of the gravitational Lagrangian is given by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Pritha Bari , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Saikat Chakraborty

The Horndeski theories are extended into the Lovelock gravity theory. When the canonical scalar field is uniquely kinetically coupled to the Lovelock tensors, it is named after Lovelock scalar field. The Lovelock scalar field model is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-18 Changjun Gao

We consider the evolution of a flat Friedmann-Roberstson-Walker Universe in a higher derivative theories, including $\alpha R^{2}$ terms to the Einstein-Hilbert action in the presence of a variable gravitational and cosmological constants.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 P. S. Debnath , B. C. Paul

We provide a detailed analysis of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes in a wide range of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. We apply solution-generating methods to three parametrised classes of scalar-tensor theory which lead naturally to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 John D. Barrow , Paul Parsons

We study some universal features of gravity in higher dimensions and by universal we mean a feature that remains true in all dimensions $\geq4$. They include: (a) the gravitational dynamics always follows from the Bianchi derivative of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-06 Naresh Dadhich

We derived equations of motion corresponding to Bianchi-I cosmological models in the Lovelock gravity. Equations derived in the general case, without any specific ansatz for any number of spatial dimensions and any order of the Lovelock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-22 S. A. Pavluchenko