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We develop our recent suggestion that inflation may be made past eternal, so that there is no initial cosmological singularity or "beginning of time". Inflation with multiple vacua generically approaches a steady-state statistical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony Aguirre , Steven Gratton

The standard model of cosmology posits that some time in the remote past, labelled as t=0, a Big-Bang occurred. However, it does not tell what caused the Big-Bang and subsequently the Inflation. In the present work the cause of the Big-Bang…

General Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 R. K. Thakur

The large-scale structure of the universe suggests that the physics underlying its early evolution is scale-free. This was the historic motivation for the Harrison-Zel'dovich-Peebles spectrum and for inflation. Based on a hydrodynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Anna Ijjas , Paul J. Steinhardt , Abraham Loeb

We discuss the notion of generating a cosmic inflation without any big bang singularity. It has been proved recently by Good and Linder (arXiv : 2503.02380v1) that such an expansion of the universe can be driven by quantum fluctuations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Soumya Chakrabarti

The early universe according to the big bang and the grand unified theories is discussed. The shortcomings of big bang are summarized together with their resolution by inflationary cosmology. Inflation, the subsequent oscillation and decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 George Lazarides

The early Universe inflation is well known as a promising theory to explain the origin of large scale structure of the Universe, a causal theory for the origin of primordial density fluctuations which may explain the observed density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-he Meng

What can be measured by an observer in our universe? We address this question by constructing an algebra of gravitationally-dressed observables accessible to a comoving observer in FLRW spacetimes that are asymptotically de Sitter in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Samuel Leutheusser , Gautam Satishchandran

An alternative inflationary model is proposed predicated upon a consideration of the form of the uncertainty principle in a curved background spacetime. An argument is presented suggesting a possible curvature dependence in the correct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-12 Paul J. Camp , John L. Safko

A scale-invariant universe can have a period of accelerated expansion at early times: inflation. We use a frame-invariant approach to calculate inflationary observables in a scale invariant theory of gravity involving two scalar fields -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 Pedro G. Ferreira , Christopher T. Hill , Johannes Noller , Graham G. Ross

Inflation provides a natural mechanism to account for the origin of cosmic structures. The generation of primordial inhomogeneities during inflation can be understood via the spontaneous creation of quanta from the vacuum. We show that when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ivan Agullo , Leonard Parker

Quantum creation of Universes with compact spacelike sections that have curvature $k$ either closed, flat or open, i.e. $k=\pm1,0$ are studied. In the flat and open cases, the superpotential of the Wheeler De Witt equation is significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. H. Coule , Jerome Martin

We propose a cosmological scenario which describes the evolution history of the universe based on the particle creation and holographic equipartition. The model attempts to solve the inflation of the early universe and the accelerated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Fei-Quan Tu , Yi-Xin Chen , Qi-Hong Huang

Inflation, a period of exponential expansion in the early Universe, is considered an important part of the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model, and plays a crucial role in explaining a wide range of current observations. The standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Maria Pia Piccirilli , Gabriel Leon

In this work, we study a cosmological model driven by Generalized ModMax nonlinear electrodynamics. We find that, with an appropriate choice of the theory's parameters, the universe's initial singularity can be avoided. Moreover, we also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 M. Sabido , V. Sierra

The induced gravity theory is a variant of Jordan--Brans--Dicke theory where the `dilaton' field possesses a potential. It has the unusual feature that in the presence of a false vacuum there is a {\em stable} static solution with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-09 Anne M Green , Andrew R Liddle

On the occasion of a century from the proposal of General relativity by Einstein, I attempt to tackle some open issues in modern cosmology, via a toy but non-trivial model. Specifically, I would like to link together: (i) the smallness of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Nick E. Mavromatos

We consider inflation in a universe with a positive cosmological constant and a nonminimally coupled scalar field, in which the field couples both quadratically and quartically to the Ricci scalar. When considered in the Einstein frame and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-21 Dražen Glavan , Anja Marunović , Tomislav Prokopec

The mechanism of the initial inflation of the universe is based on gravitationally coupled scalar fields $\phi$. Various scenarios are distinguished by the choice of an {\it effective self--interaction potential} $U(\phi)$ which simulates a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Franz E. Schunck , Eckehard W. Mielke

Cosmologists have embraced a particular ad hoc formula for the primordial power spectrum from inflation for universes with $\Omega_0 < 1$. However, the so-called ``Open Inflation'' models, which are attracting renewed interest in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Barnard , Andreas Albrecht

Vacuum energy, a prediction of quantum field theory, manifests itself as a cosmological constant in general relativity. In this Letter, we propose a novel inflationary scenario driven by a bare cosmological constant $\Lambda$, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Chengsheng Mu , Shuxun Tian , Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu