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Understanding the evolution of dark energy poses a significant challenge in modern cosmology, as it is responsible for the universe's accelerated expansion. In this study, we focus on a specific $f(T)$ cosmological model and analyze its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 A. Zhadyranova , M. Koussour , S. Bekkhozhayev , V. Zhumabekova , J. Rayimbaev

In this thesis, we study the implications of Quantum Gravity models for the dynamics of spacetime and the ensuing departures from classical General Relativity. The main focus is on cosmological applications, particularly the impact of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-09 Marco de Cesare

Cosmic acceleration may be the result of unknown physical processes involving either new fields in high energy physics or modifications of gravitation theory. In the latter case, such modifications are usually related to the existence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. S. Alcaniz , N. Pires

The cosmological constant, i.e., the energy density stored in the true vacuum state of all existing fields in the Universe, is the simplest and the most natural possibility to describe the current cosmic acceleration. However, despite its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Carneiro , M. A. Dantas , C. Pigozzo , J. S. Alcaniz

Quantum gravity is expected to be necessary in order to understand situations where classical general relativity breaks down. In particular in cosmology one has to deal with initial singularities, i.e. the fact that the backward evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Martin Bojowald

Controlling the continuum limit and extracting effective gravitational physics are shared challenges for quantum gravity approaches based on quantum discrete structures. The description of quantum gravity in terms of tensorial group field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-07 Luca Marchetti , Daniele Oriti , Andreas G. A. Pithis , Johannes Thürigen

A quantum theory of gravity is described in the case of a positive cosmological constant in 3+1 dimensions. Both old and new results are described, which support the case that loop quantum gravity provides a satisfactory quantum theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Lee Smolin

The problem of the physical nature and the cosmological genesis of Lambda-term is discussed. This problem can't be solved in terms of the current quantum field theory which operates with Higgs and non-perturbative vacuum condensates and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Burdyuzha , O. Lalakulich , G. Vereshkov , Yu. Ponomarev

The value of the cosmological constant is explained in terms of a noisy diffusion of energy from the low energy particle physics degrees of freedom to the fundamental Planckian granularity which is expected from general arguments in quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 Alejandro Perez , Daniel Sudarsky , James D. Bjorken

We construct $F(T,\left(\nabla{T}\right)^2,\Box {T})$ gravitational modifications, which are novel classes of modified theories arising from higher-derivative torsional terms in the action, and are different than their curvature analogue.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Giovanni Otalora , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

If an ultraviolet fixed point renders quantum gravity renormalizable, the effective potential for a singlet scalar field -- the cosmon -- can be computed according to the corresponding scaling solution of the renormalization group…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 Christof Wetterich

Flat space cosmology spacetimes are exact time-dependent solutions of 3-dimensional gravity theories, such as Einstein gravity or topologically massive gravity. We exhibit a novel kind of phase transition between these cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 Arjun Bagchi , Stephane Detournay , Daniel Grumiller , Joan Simon

In view of late-time cosmic acceleration, a dark energy cosmological model is revisited wherein Einstein's cosmological constant is considered as a candidate of dark energy. Exact solution of Einstein field equations (EFEs) is derived in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-22 S. K. J. Pacif , Md Salahuddin Khan , L. K. Paikroy , Shalini Singh

In this dissertation, the nature of Dark Energy (DE) is examined from both theoretical and phenomenological perspectives. The possibility of DE being a dynamic quantity in quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spacetime is studied. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Cristian Moreno-Pulido

The observed late-time acceleration of the cosmic expansion constitutes a fundamental problem in modern theoretical physics and cosmology. In an attempt to weight the validity of a large number of dark energy models, I use the recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-21 Spyros Basilakos

In this work we propose a new general model of eternal cyclic Universe. We start from the assumption that quantum gravity corrections can be effectively accounted by the addition of higher order curvature terms in the Lagrangian density for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-06 Petar Pavlovic , Marko Sossich

Scalar-tensor theory of gravity with non-minimal coupling is a fairly good candidate for dark energy, required to explain late-time cosmic evolution. Here we study the very early stage of evolution of the universe with a modified version of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 Ranajit Mandal , Chandramouli Sarkar , Abhik Kumar Sanyal

We investigate the cosmological implications of $f(Q)$ gravity, which is a modified theory of gravity based on non-metricity, in non-flat geometry. We perform a detailed dynamical-system analysis keeping the $f(Q)$ function completely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-26 Hamid Shabani , Avik De , Tee-How Loo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We have investigated the cosmological scenarios with a four dimensional effective action which is connected with multidimensional, supergravity and string theories. The solution for the scale factor is such that initially universe undergoes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. A. Sen , S. Sen

The formation of the cosmic structures in the late Universe is considered using Vlasov kinetic approach. The crucial point is the use of the gravitational potential with repulsive term of the cosmological constant which provides a solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 V. G. Gurzadyan , N. N. Fimin , V. M. Chechetkin