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We argue that our recent success in using our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity, in the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno and Reuter, to estimate the value of the…

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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,…

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For various theories, in particular gauge field theories, the algebraic form of the Hamiltonian simplifies considerably if one writes it in terms of certain complex variables. Also general relativity when written in the new canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Thomas Thiemann

The Hamiltonian approach to General Relativity is developed similarly to the Wheeler-DeWitt Hamiltonian cosmology, where the cosmological scale factor is treated as a time-like dynamic variable and its canonical momentum is considered as an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Barbashov , V. N. Pervushin , V. A. Zinchuk , A. G. Zorin

This work studies the quantum cosmology of a closed, spatially homogeneous, and isotropic FLRW minisuperspace model with electromagnetic radiation as a matter content. We solve the associated Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation using the…

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We present a new reformulation of the canonical quantum geometrodynamics, which allows to overcome the fundamental problem of the frozen formalism and, therefore, to construct an appropriate Hilbert space associate to the solution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Simone Mercuri , Giovanni Montani

Fermions are coupled to the Einstein-Cartan system in the canonical formulation, including the cosmological, the Barbero-Immirzi, and the non-minimal coupling constants. The resulting ten first-class constraints generate gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Erick I. Duque

We study the quantum cosmology of a quadratic $f(R)$ theory with a FRW metric, via one of its equivalent Horndeski type actions, where the dynamics of the scalar field is induced. The classical equations of motion and the Weeler-deWitt…

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Einsteinian cubic gravity (ECG) is the most general theory up to cubic order in curvature, which have the same graviton spectrum as the Einstein theory. In this paper, we investigate the geodesic motions of timelike particles around the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Yong-Zhuang Li , Xiao-Mei Kuang

The cosmological implications of the Covariant Canonical Gauge Theory of Gravity (CCGG) are investigated. CCGG is a Palatini theory derived from first principles using the canonical transformation formalism in the covariant Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-01 David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch , Jürgen Struckmeier

We quantize a flat cosmological model in the context of $f(T)$ theory of modified gravity using the Dirac's quantization approach for Hamiltonian constraint systems. In this regard, first we obtain the Wheeler-DeWitt equation as the…

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We examine Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker cosmology, incorporating quantum gravitational corrections through the functional renormalization group flow of the effective action for gravity. We solve the Einstein equation with quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Chiang-Mei Chen , Rituparna Mandal , Nobuyoshi Ohta

The coincidence of quantum cosmology solutions generated by solving a Euclidean version of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for gravity and by using the complex canonical transformation of the Ashtekar variables is discussed. An examination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael P. Ryan

A systematic Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein-Cartan system, based on the Hilbert-Palatini action with the Barbero-Immirzi and cosmological constants, is performed using the traditional ADM decomposition and without fixing the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Erick I. Duque

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new way to inquire the quantum cosmology for a certain gravitational theory. Normally, the quantum cosmological model is introduced as the minisuperspace theory which is obtained by reducing the…

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Physical spacetime geometry follows from some effective thermodynamics of quantum states of all fields and particles described in frames of General Relativity. In the sense of pure field theoretical Einstein's point of view on gravitation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-27 L. A. Glinka

The universe is a vast and complex system, and our understanding of its fundamental workings is constantly evolving. In this work, we present a novel modification to the standard theory of gravity by incorporating curvature, torsion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

Within the framework of Einstein-Cartan gravity we consider an action, containing up to quadratic terms of the Ricci scalar and the Holst invariant, coupled non-minimally to a scalar field, including couplings of its derivatives to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 Theodoros Katsoulas , Kyriakos Tamvakis

We explore the possibility of realizing a non-singular bounce in the early universe within the framework of modified gravity with spacetime torsion. In Einstein Cartan theory, torsion is embedded in the spacetime by adding an antisymmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 Sonej Alam , Somasri Sen , Soumitra Sengupta

Recent results based on renormalization group approaches to Quantum Gravity suggest that the Newton's and cosmological constants should be treated as dynamical variables whose evolution depend on the characteristic energy scale of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-08 S. J. Gabriele Gionti