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It has been shown that if one solves self-consistently the semiclassical Einstein equations in the presence of a quantum scalar field, with a cutoff on the number of modes, spacetime become flatter when the cutoff increases. Here we extend…

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A cosmological model with perfect fluid and self-interacting quintessence field is considered in the framework of the spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) geometry. By assuming that all physical quantities depend on the volume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. K. Mak , T. Harko

We present a quantization of unimodular gravity in the connection representation for a homogeneous, isotropic, and spatially flat cosmological model without matter. In this model, the wave function is governed by a Schr\"odinger-type…

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In many cases a massive nonlinear scalar field can lead to accelerated expansion in cosmological models. This paper contains mathematical results on this subject for flat Robertson-Walker space-time. Global existence to the coupled…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 Alexis Nangue

So far, none of attempts to quantize gravity has led to a satisfactory model that not only describe gravity in the realm of a quantum world, but also its relation to elementary particles and other fundamental forces. Here, we outline the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-29 Houri Ziaeepour

One of the greatest problems of standard cosmology is the Big Bang singularity. Previously it has been shown that non-local ghostfree higher-derivative modifications of Einstein gravity in the ultra-violet regime can admit non-singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-03 Tirthabir Biswas , Tomi Koivisto , Anupam Mazumdar

We derive a Weyl invariant equation for Gravity by gauging the global Weyl invariance of vacuum Einstein equations. The equation is linear in the curvature and a natural generalization of Einstein equations to Weyl geometry. The system has…

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We consider a solution to the problem of time in quantum gravity by deparameterisation of the ADM action in terms of York time, a parameter proportional to the extrinsic curvature of a spatial hypersurface. We study a minisuperspace model…

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On the basis of qualitative theory of differential equations it is shown that dynamic system based on the system of Einstein - Klein - Gordon equations with regard to Friedman Universe has a stable center corresponding to zero values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-06 Yurii Ignat'ev

We discuss the linearization of Einstein equations in the presence of a cosmological constant, by expanding the solution for the metric around a flat Minkowski space-time. We demonstrate that one can find consistent solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Jose Bernabeu , Catalina Espinoza , Nick E. Mavromatos

In this paper we suppose that the cosmological constant will change when the universe expends. For a general consideration, the cosmological constant is assumed to be a function of scale factor and Hubble constant. According to the ADM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-03 Jin-Zhang Tang , Qiang Xu

We propose that the solution to the cosmological vacuum energy puzzle may come from the infrared sector of the effective theory of gravity, where the impact of the trace anomaly is of upmost relevance. We proceed by introducing two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-12 Evan C. Thomas , Federico R. Urban , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

We consider a flat cosmological model with a free massless scalar field and the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ in the framework of loop quantum cosmology. The scalar field plays the role of an intrinsic time. We apply the reduced phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jakub Mielczarek , Wlodzimierz Piechocki

If Einstein's equations are to describe a field theory of gravity in Minkowski spacetime, then causality requires that the effective curved metric must respect the flat background metric's null cone. The kinematical problem is solved using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Brian Pitts , W. C. Schieve

This paper analyzes the stability of the closed Einstein static universe by using linear homogeneous perturbations in the framework of energy-momentum squared gravity. This newly developed proposal resolves the primordial singularity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul

The black hole area theorem suggests that classical general relativity is the thermodynamic limit of a quantum statistics. The degrees of freedom of the statistical theory cannot be the spacetime metric. We argue that the statistical theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-18 T. P. Singh

Recently the neglected issue of the causal structure in the flat spacetime approach to Einstein's theory of gravity has been substantially resolved. Consistency requires that the flat metric's null cone be respected by the null cone of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Brian Pitts , W. C. Schieve

We consider the symmetric teleparallel $f\left( Q\right) $-gravity in Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker cosmology with nonzero spatial curvature. For a nonlinear $f\left( Q\right) $ model there exist always the limit of General\…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-09 Andronikos Paliathanasis

We compute non-perturbative flow equations for the couplings of quantum gravity in fourth order of a derivative expansion. The gauge invariant functional flow equation for arbitrary metrics allows us to extract $\beta$-functions for all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-24 Saswato Sen , Christof Wetterich , Masatoshi Yamada

The $f(R)$ gravity models formulated in Einstein conformal frame are equivalent to Einstein gravity together with a minimally coupled scalar field. The scalar field couples with the matter sector and the coupling term is given by the…

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