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We calculate the expansion of the universe under the assumptions that $G$ varies in space and the radial size $r$ of the universe is very large (we call this the MOND regime of varying-$G$ gravity). The inferred asymptotic behavior turns…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-29 Dimitris M. Christodoulou , Demosthenes Kazanas

The necessary and sufficient condition for the absence of particle horizons in a big bang Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe is provided. It happens to be a "smooth big bang" initial condition: the proper time derivative of the expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-11 Carles Bona

We study cosmological solutions for the very early universe beginning at the Planck scale for a universe containing radiation, curvature and, as a simplification of a possible scalar field potential, a cosmological constant term. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-30 E. Galindo-Dellavalle , G. German , A. de la Macorra

Recently a Hamiltonian formulation for the evolution of the universe dominated by multiple oscillatory scalar fields was developed by the present author and was applied to the investigation of the evolution of cosmological perturbations on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Takashi Hamazaki

Motivated by previous works, we study semi-classical cosmological solutions and the wave function of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the Bose-Parker-Peleg model. We obtain the wave function of the universe satisfying the suitable boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wontae Kim , Edwin J. Son , Myung Seok Yoon

The universe we observe is homogeneous on super-horizon scales, leading to the ``cosmic homogeneity problem''. Inflation alleviates this problem but cannot solve it within the realm of conservative extrapolations of classical physics. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark Trodden , Tanmay Vachaspati

The paper develops an earlier proposition that the physical universe is a finite system co-ordinatised by a very large finite field $\mathrm{F}_\mathfrak{p}$ which looks like the field of complex numbers to an observer. We construct a place…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Boris Zilber

The Quantum cosmology with Born-Infeld(B-I) type scalar field is considered. In the extreme limits of small cosmological scale factor the wave function of the universe can also be obtained by applying the methods developed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Q. Lu , W. Fang , Z. G. Huang , P. Y. Ji

These lectures provide an introductory review of big bang cosmology. I discuss the expanding Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe, summarizing the observational evidence which has led to its adoption as the `standard' cosmological model and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Josh Frieman

It has been demonstrated that a modern stage of the Universe expansion may be described in accordance with the observations within the scope of the space-time conformal geometry. The clock synchronization procedure in SR has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-21 L. M. Tomilchik , N. G. Kembrovskaya

Recently we proposed a mechanism for sequestering the Standard Model vacuum energy that predicts that the universe will collapse. Here we present a simple mechanism for bringing about this collapse, employing a scalar field whose potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-03 Nemanja Kaloper , Antonio Padilla

Whether our universe with present day acceleration can eventually collapse is very interesting problem. We are also interesting in such problems, whether the universe is closed? Why it is so flat? How long to expend a period for a cycle of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 De-Hai Zhang

If our observable Universe is only a tiny region of a vastly larger and conformally older spacetime, then the usual formulations of the classical flatness and horizon problems of the Hot Big Bang can be reinterpreted as artifacts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Meir Shimon

In the SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y standard electroweak theory coupled with the Einstein gravity, new topological configurations naturally emerge, if the spatial section of the universe is globally a three-sphere (S^3) with a small radius. The SU(2)_L…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Yutaka Hosotani , Hiroki Emoto , Takahiro Kubota

We construct a simple model of universe with a generalized equation of state $p=(\alpha +k\rho^{1/n})\rho c^2$ having a linear component $p=\alpha\rho c^2$ and a polytropic component $p=k\rho^{1+1/n}c^2$. For $\alpha=1/3$, $n=1$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-18 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The assumption that wave function collapse is a real occurrence has very interesting consequences - both experimental and theoretical. Besides predicting observable deviations from linear evolution, it implies that these deviations must…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Edward J. Gillis

A united approach of the large-scale structure of a closed universe and the local spherically symmetric gravitational field is given by supposing an appropriate boundary condition. The general feature of the model obtained are the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang-Wen Ma , Zong-Kuan Guo

The tunneling approach to the wave function of the universe has been recently criticized by Bousso and Hawking who claim that it predicts a catastrophic instability of de Sitter space with respect to pair production of black holes. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Garriga , A. Vilenkin

The great emptiness is a possible beginning of the Universe in the infinite past of physical time. For the epoch of great emptiness particles are extremely rare and effectively massless. Only expectation values of fields and average…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-12 C. Wetterich

Using the holographic entropy proposal for a closed universe by Verlinde, a bound on equations of state for different stages of the universe is obtained. Further exploring this bound, we find that an inflationary universe naturally emerges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Qing-Guo Huang