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We explore the phase-space of a multiscalar-torsion gravitational theory within a cosmological framework characterized by a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker model. Our investigation focuses on teleparallelism and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Genly Leon , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Alfredo D. Millano

In this work we show that the presence of a vector field on cosmological scales could explain the present phase of accelerated expansion of the universe. The proposed theory contains no dimensional parameters nor potential terms and does…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

Cosmic acceleration may be the result of unknown physical processes involving either new fields in high energy physics or modifications of gravitation theory. In the latter case, such modifications are usually related to the existence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. S. Alcaniz , N. Pires

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

In this paper, we consider a simple form of expansion history of Universe referred to as the hybrid expansion law - a product of power-law and exponential type of functions. The ansatz by construction mimics the power-law and de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-16 Ozgur Akarsu , Suresh Kumar , R. Myrzakulov , M. Sami , Lixin Xu

In this work we investigate the utility of using SNe Ia observations in constraining the cosmological parameters in BSBM theory where a scalar field is responsible for both fine structure constant variation and late time universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 H. Farajollahi , A. Salehi

We investigate cosmology with complex scalar field. It is shown that such models can describe two stages of inflation and the oscillatory regime. Thus we don't need both quintessence and $\Lambda$-term. It is enough to have single complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Yurov

The mechanism of the initial inflationary scenario of the universe and of its late-time acceleration can be described by assuming the existence of some gravitationally coupled scalar fields $\phi $, with the inflaton field generating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-27 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , M. K. Mak

We investigate if a recently introduced formulation of general relativity on a Weyl-integrable geometry, contains cosmological solutions exhibiting acceleration in the present cosmic expansion. We derive the general conditions to have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Ricardo Aguila , José Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Claudia Moreno , Mauricio Bellini

The present work deals with a dynamical systems study of quintessence potentials leading to the present accelerated expansion of the universe. The principal interest is to check for late time attractors which give an accelerated expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-28 Nandan Roy , Narayan Banerjee

Starting from pure multidimensional gravity with curvature-nonlinear terms but no matter fields in the initial action, we obtain a cosmological model with two effective scalar fields related to the size of two extra factor spaces. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 K. A. Bronnikov , S. G. Rubin , I. V. Svadkovsky

In this paper, we wish to point out the possibility of using a complex scalar field to account for the inflationary stage and the current acceleration. By the analysis of the dynamical system and numerical work, we show that the amplitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Xiang-hua Zhai , Yi-bin Zhao

The accelerating universe is closely related to today's version of the cosmological constant problem; fine-tuning and coincidence problems. We show how successfully the scalar-tensor theory, a rather rigid theoretical idea, provides us with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 Yasunori Fujii

In this paper we investigate the accelerating and decelerating cosmological models with non-linear spinor fields and non-minimal interaction of $f(R)$ gravity with a scalar field. We combine two different approaches to the description of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-12 Yu. A. Rybalov , A. N. Makarenko , K. E. Osetrin

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 discuss massive scalar field with conformal coupling in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) Universe of special type with constant electromagnetic field. Treating an external gravitational-electromagnetic background exactly, at first time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , S. D. Odintsov

We show that the accelerated expansion of the Universe can be viewed as a crossover phenomenon where the Newton constant and the Cosmological constant are actually scaling operators, dynamically evolving in the attraction basin of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Bonanno , G. Esposito , C. Rubano , P. Scudellaro

While considering the chameleon scalar field model with the spatially flat FLRW background, we investigate the late-time acceleration phase of the universe, wherein we apply the typical potential usually used in this model. Through setting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-25 Raziyeh Zaregonbadi , Nasim Saba , Mehrdad Farhoudi

In many cases a nonlinear scalar field with potential $V$ can lead to accelerated expansion in cosmological models. This paper contains mathematical results on this subject for homogeneous spacetimes. It is shown that, under the assumption…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alan D. Rendall

In this work it is investigated if fermionic sources could be responsible for accelerated periods during the evolution of a universe where a matter field would answer for the decelerated period. The self-interaction potential of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. O. Ribas , F. P. Devecchi , G. M. Kremer