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The behaviour of a non-canonical scalar field within an anisotropic Bianchi type I, spatially homogeneous, Universe in the framework of the intermediate inflation will be studied. It will be examined on the condition that both the…

General Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Mahdeyeh Naderi , Ali Aghamohammadi , Abdollah Refaei , Haidar Sheikhahmadi

We explore dynamics of cosmological models with a nonminimally coupled scalar field evolving on a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker background. We consider cosmological models including the Hilbert-Einstein curvature term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-01 Maria A. Skugoreva , Alexey V. Toporensky , Sergey Yu. Vernov

Quantum fluctuations of a nonminimally coupled scalar field in D-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic background are calculated within the operator formalism in curved models with time evolutions of the scale factor that allow smooth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-18 Tomi Koivisto , Tomislav Prokopec

Within the scope of Bianchi type-$I$ cosmological model we have studied the role of spinor field in the evolution of the Universe. In doing so we have considered the case with non-minimal coupling. It was found that the non-diagonal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-05 Bijan Saha

We present non-perturbative numerical relativity simulations of slowly contracting spacetimes in which the scalar field driving slow contraction is coupled to a second scalar field through an exponential non-linear sigma model-type kinetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 Anna Ijjas , Frans Pretorius , Paul J. Steinhardt , David Garfinkle

The purpose of this work is to investigate spatially homogeneous and flat cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations coupled to a non-variational ``near-minimal'' scalar field. This coupling model represents a minimal departure from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Joshua Ritchie

Using dynamical systems methods, we describe the evolution of a minimally coupled scalar field and a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe in the context of general relativity, which is relevant for inflation and late-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Valerio Faraoni , Charles S. Protheroe

We consider a scalar field with a kinetic term non-minimally coupled to gravity in an anisotropic background. Various potentials for the scalar field are considered. By explicit examples, we show that how the anisotropy can change the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-10 Amir Ghalee

We consider a scalar field with a negative kinetic term minimally coupled to gravity. We obtain an exact non-static spherically symmetric solution which describes a wormhole in cosmological setting. The wormhole is shown to connect two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 S. V. Sushkov , S. -W. Kim

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 introduce a non-minimally conformally coupled scalar field and dark matter in F(T) cosmology and study their dynamics. We investigate the stability and phase space behavior of the parameters of the scalar field by choosing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-02 Mubasher Jamil , D. Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

Cosmological models arising from a generalized compactification of Einstein gravity are derived. It is shown that a redefinition of the moduli fields reduces the system to a set of massless fields and a single field with a single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne M. Green , James E. Lidsey

We analyze cosmological particle production driven by spacetime expansion in the early universe for homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies with positive, negative, and zero spatial curvature. We prioritize analytical results to gain a deeper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Luis J. Garay , Álvaro Parra-López

Phase-space descriptions are used to find qualitative features of the solutions of generalized scalar field cosmologies with arbitrary potentials and arbitrary couplings to matter. Previous results are summarized and new ones are presented…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-01 Genly Leon , Felipe Orlando Franz Silva

We investigate cosmological scenarios with a non-minimal derivative coupling between the scalar field and the curvature, examining both the quintessence and the phantom cases in zero and constant potentials. In general, we find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Sergey V. Sushkov

We study higher-dimensional soliton and hairy black hole solutions of the Einstein equations non-minimally coupled to a scalar field. The scalar field has no self-interaction potential but a cosmological constant is included. Non-trivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-12 Dominic Hosler , Elizabeth Winstanley

Several results related to flat Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker models in the conformal (Einstein) frame of scalar-tensor gravity theories are extended. Scalar fields with arbitrary (positive) potentials and arbitrary coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-14 Carlos R. Fadragas , Genly Leon

We consider phase transitions on (eternal) de Sitter in an O(N) symmetric scalar field theory. Making use of Starobinsky's stochastic inflation we prove that deep infrared scalar modes cannot form a condensate -- and hence they see an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-02 Gianrocco Lazzari , Tomislav Prokopec

In this paper, we consider a nonminimal coupling model between gravity and nonlinear electrodynamics with cosmological constant. This cosmological model is designed to account for both the inflationary epoch of the early universe and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Chilwatun Nasiroh , Ramy F. Izzah , Fiki T. Akbar , Bobby E. Gunara

This study investigates the dynamics of a non-minimally coupled (NMC) scalar field in modified gravity, employing the Noether gauge symmetry (NGS) approach to systematically derive exact cosmological solutions. By formulating a point-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Ahmadfikri Talek , Narakorn Kaewkhao , Watcharakorn Srikom , Farruh Atamurotov , Phongpichit Channuie