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Exact cosmological solutions for effective actions in D dimensions inspired by the tree-level superstring action are studied. For a certain range of free parameters existing in the model, nonsingular bouncing solutions are found. Among…

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The general relativistic non--linear dynamics of a self--gravitating collisionless fluid with vanishing vorticity is studied in synchronous and comoving -- i.e. {\em Lagrangian} -- coordinates. Writing the equations in terms of the metric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabino Matarrese

We study a formulation of euclidean general relativity in which the dynamical variables are given by a sequence of real numbers $\lambda_{n}$, representing the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on the curved spacetime. These quantities are…

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The Born-Infeld determinantal gravity has been recently proposed as a way to smooth the Big Bang singularity. This theory is formulated on the Weitzenbock space-time and the teleparallel representation is used instead of the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-24 Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Che-Yu Chen , Pisin Chen

Building upon our recently established correspondence between quantum cosmology and the hydrogen atom [1], we investigate the specific sector of a negative cosmological constant ($\Lambda < 0$) in a flat FLRW universe with dust. While the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Dipayan Mukherjee , Harkirat Singh Sahota , S. Shankaranarayanan

We examine in the context of general relativity the dynamics of a spatially flat Robertson-Walker universe filled with a classical minimally coupled scalar field \phi of exponential potential ~ e^{-\mu\phi} plus pressureless baryonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kehagias , G. Kofinas

The idea of gauge theories of gravity predicts that there should exist not only the massless graviton but also massive particles carrying the gravitational force. We study the cosmology in a quadratic gravity with dynamical torsion where…

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The ghost-free theory of massive gravity with two dynamical metrics has been shown to produce viable cosmological expansion, where the late-time acceleration of the Universe is due to the finite range of the gravitational interaction rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-29 Adam R. Solomon , Yashar Akrami , Tomi S. Koivisto

In this letter we investigate some consequences of considering our 4D observable universe as locally and isometrically embeded into a 5D spacetime, where gravity is described by a Brans-Dicke theory in vacuum. Once we impose the embeding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 José Edgar Madriz Aguilar , J. Zamarripa , A. Peraza , J. A. Licea

In this work, a global dynamical analysis of spatially flat FLRW cosmologies driven by a canonical scalar field minimally coupled to gravity is presented. Under suitable regularity and asymptotic assumptions on the scalar field potential,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Prasanta Sahoo

Brown's formulation of dynamical perfect fluids in Minkowski space-time is extended to ADM tetrad gravity in globally hyperbolic, asymptotically Minkowskian space-times. For the dust we get the Hamiltonian description in closed form in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-03 David Alba , Luca Lusanna

Singularities in general relativity such as the big bang and big crunch, and exotic singularities such as the big rip are the boundaries of the classical spacetimes. These events are marked by a divergence in the curvature invariants and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-01 Parampreet Singh

We present new evidence in support of the Penrose's strong cosmic censorship conjecture in the class of Gowdy spacetimes with $T^3$ spatial topology. Solving Einstein's equations perturbatively to all orders we show that asymptotically…

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In this talk we shall show a perfect fluid cosmological model and its properties. The model possesses an orthogonally transitive abelian two-dimensional group of isometries that corresponds to cylindrical symmetry. The matter content is a…

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The evolution of cosmological large-scale perturbations is described in terms of the concordant model based on the recent discovery of cosmic vacuum. It is demonstrated that the process is robustly controlled by a few epoch-independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arthur D. Chernin

The dynamics of cosmological gravitating system is governed by the Euler and the Poisson equations. Tiny fluctuations near the big bang singularity are amplified by gravitational instability into the observed structure today. Given the…

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The standard geometrodynamics is transformed into a theory of conformal geometrodynamics by extending the ADM phase space for canonical general relativity to that consisting of York's mean exterior curvature time, conformal three-metric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. -T. Wang

The equation which governs the temporal evolution of a gravitational wave (GW) in curved space-time can be treated as the Schrodinger equation for a particle moving in the presence of an effective potential. When GWs propagate in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Kostas Kleidis , Demetros B Papadopoulos , Enric Verdaguer , Loukas Vlahos

In this paper, we consider $2+1$ dimensional gravitational theory including a Dirac field that is minimally coupled to New Massive Gravity. We investigate cosmological solutions of the field equations by using the self-interaction potential…

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