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In a unified picture both inflation and present dynamical dark energy arise from the same scalar field. The history of the Universe describes a crossover from a scale invariant "past fixed point" where all particles are massless, to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 C. Wetterich

If our universe underwent inflation, its entropy during the inflationary phase was substantially lower than it is today. Because a low-entropy state is less likely to be chosen randomly than a high-entropy one, inflation is unlikely to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Sean M. Carroll , Jennifer Chen

The quest to understand better the nature of the initial cosmological singularity is with us since the discovery of the expanding universe. Here, we propose several non-flat models, among them the standard cosmological scenario with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-28 Andres Felipe Estupinan Salamanca , Sergio Bravo Medina , Marek Nowakowski , Davide Batic

We present a novel background-independent framework for cosmic inflation, starting with a matrix model. In this framework, inflation is portrayed as a dynamic process responsible for the generation of both space and time. This stands in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-22 Hyun Seok Yang

The evolution of the universe started from a hot and dense Big Bang point. Temperature fluctuation map of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation and initial seeds of large scale structures (LSS) are explained by an inflationary period…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Vahid Kamali

WE analyse the universe inflation when the source of gravity is electromagnetic fields obeying nonlinear electrodynamics with two parameters and without singularities. The cosmology of the universe with stochastic magnetic fields is…

General Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 S. I. Kruglov

A model of an emergent universe is formulated using the mechanism of particle creation. Here the universe is considered as a non-equilibrium thermodynamical system with dissipation due to particle creation mechanism. The universe is chosen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Subenoy Chakraborty

A model of magnetic universe based on nonlinear electrodynamics has been introduced by Kruglov. This model describes an early inflation era followed by a radiation era. We show that this model is related to our model of universe based on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Since the advent of inflation, several theorems have been proven suggesting that although inflation can (and generically does) continue eternally into the future, it cannot be extended eternally into the past to create a ``steady-state''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anthony Aguirre , Steven Gratton

We consider a novel model of cosmic inflation. In our model one does not need any specific matter field to drive inflation, but inflation stems from the microscopic, Planck scale structure of spacetime, thus being of quantum gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-28 Jarmo Mäkelä

Cosmic inflation is arguably the most favoured paradigm of the very early Universe. It postulates an early phase of fast, nearly exponential, and accelerated expansion. Inflationary models are capable of explaining the overall flatness and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Cristian Joana

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

An outgrowth of the idea of inflation is advanced. In the inflation regime, the singularity condition is broken. Equations which govern inflation are invariant under time reversal, so that they describe deflation as well. Those two…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-02 Vladimir S. Mashkevich

The aim of this paper is to show, that the 'oscillating universe' is a viable alternative to inflation. We remind that this model provides a natural solution to the flatness or entropy and to the horizon problem of standard cosmology. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Ruth Durrer , Joachim Laukenmann

We consider spatially averaged inhomogeneous universe models and argue that, already in the absence of sources, an effective scalar field arises through foliating and spatially averaging inhomogeneous geometrical curvature invariants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-26 Thomas Buchert , Nathaniel Obadia

Motivated by brane cosmology we solve the Einstein equations with a time dependent cosmological constant. Assuming that at an early epoch the vacuum energy scales as $1/logt $, we show that the universe passes from a fast growing phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 E. Papantonopoulos , I. Pappa

The standard model of cosmology is based on the hot Big Bang theory and the inflationary paradigm. Recent precise observations of the temperature and polarization anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background and the matter distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-02 Juan Garcia-Bellido

A new class of gravity-matter models defined in terms of two independent non-Riemannian volume forms (alternative generally covariant integration measure densities) on the space-time manifold are studied in some detail. These models involve…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Eduardo Guendelman , Ramón Herrera , Pedro Labraña , Emil Nissimov , Svetlana Pacheva

We show that it is possible to realize an inflationary scenario even without conversion of the false vacuum energy to radiation. Such cosmological models have a deflationary stage in which $Ha^2$ is decreasing and radiation produced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Boris Spokoiny

Observations of the cosmic microwave sky are revealing the primordial non-uniformities from which all structure in the Universe grew. The only known physical mechanism for generating the inhomogeneities we see involves the amplification of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Neil Turok