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The solution for an inflationary universe without singularities is derived from the Einstein-Lemaitre equations. The present state of the universe evolved from a steady state solution for a tiny, but classical micro-universe with large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Rebhan

Cosmic acceleration is explained quantitatively, purely in general relativity, as an apparent effect due to quasilocal gravitational energy differences that arise in the decoupling of bound systems from the global expansion of the universe.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David L. Wiltshire

In the context of inflationary scenarios, the observed large angle anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature is believed to probe the primordial metric perturbations from inflation. Although the perturbations from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Somnath Bharadwaj , Dipak Munshi , Tarun Souradeep

Quantum geometry predicts that a universe evolves through an inflationary phase at small volume before exiting gracefully into a standard Friedmann phase. This does not require the introduction of additional matter fields with ad hoc…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald

A rotating universe represented by the G\"{o}del metric in spacetimes with Cartan torsion is investigated where the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) is computed from the G\"{o}del rotation of the universe and the spin density of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

The quantum description of time evolution in non-linear gravitational systems such as cosmological space-times is not well understood. We show, in the simplified setting of mini-superspace, that time evolution of this system can be obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Anne-Katherine Burns , David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

Axion-CMB scenario is an interesting possibility to explain the temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by primordial fluctuations of the QCD axion \cite{Iso:2020pzv}. In this scenario, fluctuations of radiations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Satoshi Iso , Kiyoharu Kawana , Kengo Shimada

We show that deviations of the quantum state of the inflaton from the thermal vacuum of inflation may leave an imprint in the CMB anisotropies. The quantum dynamics of the inflaton in such a state produces corrections to the inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Nemanja Kaloper , Manoj Kaplinghat

The inflationary and pre-inflationary evolution of scalar modes of cosmological perturbations in a closed universe is analyzed for a loop quantum cosmology model with an inflationary regime consistent with the constraints on inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Lucas M. V. Montese , Nelson Yokomizo

The expansion of our universe, when followed backward in time, implies that it emerged from a phase of huge density, the big bang. These stages are so extreme that classical general relativity combined with matter theories is not able to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Bojowald

A new principle in quantum gravity, dubbed spacetime complexity, states that gravitational physics emerges from spacetime seeking to optimize the computational cost of its quantum dynamics. Thus far, this principle has been realized at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-29 Rafael Carrasco , Juan F. Pedraza , Andrew Svesko , Zachary Weller-Davies

It is believed that the recent detection of large tensor perturbations strongly favors the inflation scenario in the early universe. This common sense depends on the assumption that Einstein's general relativity is valid at the early…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Mingzhe Li

If the universe had a large curvature before inflation there is a deviation from the scale invariant perturbations of the inflaton at the beginning of inflation. This may have some effect on the CMB anisotropy at large angular scales. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduard Masso , Subhendra Mohanty , Akhilesh Nautiyal , Gabriel Zsembinszki

We propose an inflationary primordial feature model that can explain both the large and small-scale anomalies in the currently measured cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy spectra, revealing a clip of adventurous history of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Matteo Braglia , Xingang Chen , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

Space-based missions studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have progressively refined the parameter space in conventional models of inflation shortly ($\sim 10^{-37}$ seconds) after the big bang. While most inflationary scenarios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Jingwei Liu , Fulvio Melia

We propose a cosmological lingering phase for the initial state prior to inflation which would help address the singularity problem of inflation. The universe begins with a constant (Hagedorn) temperature and then transitions into an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-12 Brandon Melcher , Arnab Pradhan , Scott Watson

We calculate the time evolution of the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor for a minimally-coupled massless scalar field in cosmological spacetimes, with an application to dark energy in mind. We first study the evolution from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Hajime Aoki , Satoshi Iso , Yasuhiro Sekino

The advancement in the observational cosmology of the early universe such as Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations, puts severe constraints on the inflationary models. Many inflationary models have been ruled out by CMB,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Yogesh , Mehnaz Zahoor , Kashif Ali Wani , Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat

In this paper, we analyze the viability of a vacuum Gauss-Bonnet cosmology by examining the dynamics of the homogeneous and anisotropic background in 4+1 dimensions. The trajectories of the system either originate from the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Chingangbam , M. Sami , P. V. Tretyakov , A. V. Toporensky

The instability of (quasi) de Sitter spacetime from quantum gravitational effects has been discussed in many works. Especially, the gravitational backreaction from quantum energy momentum tensor is crucial for understanding the low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 Hiroki Matsui