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We study a multi-field model in Loop Quantum Cosmology for a maximally symmetric spacetime governed by the Einstein--Hilbert action minimally coupled to scalar fields. Using a Legendre transformation, we formulate the Hamiltonian dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Divya Gupta , Manabendra Sharma , Gustavo S. Vicente , Rudnei O. Ramos , Anzhong Wang

The paper is continuation of [6] where we have discussed some classical and quantization problems of rigid bodies of infinitesimal size moving in Riemannian spaces. Strictly speaking, we have considered oscillatory dynamical models on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Agnieszka Martens

We analyze the quantum supersymmetric cosmological FRW model with a scalar field, with a conditional probability density and the scalar field identified as time. The Hilbert space has a spinorial structure and there is only one consistent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 C. Ramírez , V. Vázquez-Báez

Polymer quantization is a non-standard approach to quantizing a classical system inspired by background independent approaches to quantum gravity such as loop quantum gravity. When applied to field theory it introduces a characteristic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Michele Arzano , Marco Letizia

A free massless scalar field is coupled to homogeneous and isotropic loop quantum cosmology. The coupled model is investigated in the vicinity of the classical singularity, where discreteness is essential and where the quantum model is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Bojowald , Franz Hinterleitner

Loop quantum cosmology with a scalar field is known to be closely linked with an inflationary phase. In this article, we study probabilistic predictions for the duration of slow-roll inflation, by assuming a minimalist massive scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-28 Linda Linsefors , Aurelien Barrau

We investigate the emergence of a quantum Big-Bounce in the context of an isotropic Universe, filled by a self-interacting scalar field, which plays the role of a physical clock. The bouncing cosmology is the result of a scattering process,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-04 S. Lo Franco , G. Montani

We develop a framework to study the phase space of a system consisting of a scalar field rolling down an arbitrary potential with varying slope and a background fluid, in a cosmological setting. We give analytical approximate solutions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. C. C. Ng , N. J. Nunes , F. Rosati

We develop a suitable technical algorithm to implement a separation of the Minisuperspace configurational variables into quasi-classical and purely quantum degrees of freedom, in the framework of a Polymer quantum Mechanics reformulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-02 Valerio Cascioli , Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Moriconi

We study a cosmological setup consisting of a FRW metric as the background geometry with a massless scalar field in the framework of classical polymerization of a given dynamical system. To do this, we first introduce the polymeric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-21 B. Vakili , K. Nozari , V. Hosseinzadeh , M. A. Gorji

We study oscillatory universes within the context of Loop Quantum Cosmology. We make a comparative study of flat and positively curved universes sourced by scalar fields with either positive or negative potentials. We investigate how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Mulryne , N. J. Nunes , R. Tavakol , J. E. Lidsey

We analyze some relevant semiclassical and quantum features of the implementation of Polymer Quantum Mechanics to the phenomenology of the flat isotropic Universe. We firstly investigate a parallelism between the semiclassical polymer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-17 Gabriele Barca , Paolo Di Antonio , Giovanni Montani , Alberto Patti

Free scalar field theory on 2 dimensional flat spacetime, cast in diffeomorphism invariant guise by treating the inertial coordinates of the spacetime as dynamical variables, is quantized using LQG type `polymer' representations for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alok Laddha , Madhavan Varadarajan

We show that the quantization ambiguities of loop quantum cosmology, when considered in wider generality, can be used to produce discretionary dynamical behavior. There is an infinite dimensional space of ambiguities which parallels the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-03 Lautaro Amadei , Alejandro Perez , Salvatore Ribisi

We study the classical and quantum motion of a relativistic charged particle on the spacetime produced by a global monopole. The self-potential, which is present in this spacetime, is considered as an external electrostatic potential. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Rodrigues Sobreira , E. R. Bezerra de Mello

Quantization implies independent degrees of freedom that do not appear in the classical theory, given by fluctuations, correlations, and higher moments of a state. A systematic derivation of the resulting dynamical systems is presented here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-24 Martin Bojowald , Suddhasattwa Brahma , Sean Crowe , Ding Ding , Joseph McCracken

We present a semiclassical study of the Mixmaster cosmology minimally coupled to a massive scalar field in the Hamiltonian formalism, with focus on three distinct scenarios: the classical cosmology coupled to the quantized scalar field, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Muhammad Muzammil , Viqar Husain

We present a complete quantization of an approximately homogeneous and isotropic universe with small scalar perturbations. We consider the case in which the matter content is a minimally coupled scalar field and the spatial sections are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-16 Mikel Fernández-Méndez , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Javier Olmedo

We study the cosmological evolution of the field equations in the context of Einstein-Aether cosmology by including a scalar field in a spatially flat Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker spacetime. Our analysis is separated into two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-17 Andronikos Paliathanasis , G. Papagiannopoulos , Spyros Basilakos , John D. Barrow

We analyze the semiclassical polymer dynamics of the inhomogeneous Mixmaster model by choosing the cubed scale factor as the discretized configurational variable, while the anisotropies remain pure Einsteinian variables. Such a modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-06 Stefano Antonini , Giovanni Montani