English
Related papers

Related papers: Cosmological evolution of a ghost scalar field

200 papers

The cosmological effects of the tachyon rolling down to its ground state are discussed by coupling a simple effective field theory for the tachyon field to Einstein gravity. As the tachyon rolls down to the minimum of its potential the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 G. W. Gibbons

We present a class of exact solutions in the framework of $2+1-$dimensional Einstein gravity coupled minimally to a doublet of scalar fields. Our solution can be interpreted upon tuning of parameters as an asymptotically flat wormhole as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-28 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , M. Halilsoy

In this letter we apply dynamical system methods to study all evolutional paths admissible for all initial conditions of the FRW cosmological model with a non-minimally coupled to gravity scalar field and a barotropic fluid. We choose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Marek Szydlowski , Orest Hrycyna

A detailed comparative qualitative analysis and numerical simulation of evolution of the cosmological models based on the doublet of classical and phantom scalar fields with self-action. The 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional projections of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Yurii Ignat'ev , Alexander Agathonov , Irina Kokh

We consider the process of catastrophic expansion of a spacelike wormhole after a violation of its equilibrium state. The dynamics of deformation of the comoving reference frame is investigated. We show that the deformation has a very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 I. D. Novikov , D. I. Novikov , S. V. Repin

The CGHS two-dimensional dilaton gravity model is generalized to include a ghost Klein-Gordon field, i.e. with negative gravitational coupling. This exotic radiation supports the existence of static traversible wormhole solutions, analogous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Sean A. Hayward , Sung-Won Kim , Hyunjoo Lee

We look at some dynamic geometries produced by scalar fields with both the "right" and the "wrong" sign of the kinetic energy. We start with anisotropic homogeneous universes with closed, open and flat spatial sections. A non-singular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Feinstein , Sanjay Jhingan

We solve Einstein's equation with Robertson-Walker metric as an initial-value problem, using as the source of gravity a Halpern-Huang real scalar field, which was derived from renormalization-group analysis, with a potential that exhibits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-18 Kerson Huang , Hwee-Boon Low , Roh-Suan Tung

Two new exact analytical solutions of the euclidean Einstein equations for a minimal massless scalar field and negative cosmological constant have been obtained. These solutions are given in terms of Jacobian elliptic or circular functions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 P. F. González-Díaz

We consider a cosmology in which the final stage of the Universe is neither accelerating nor decelerating, but approaches an asymptotic state where the scale factor becomes a constant value. In order to achieve this, we first bring in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Seyen Kouwn , Joohan Lee , Tae Hoon Lee , Taeyoon Moon , Phillial Oh

In this work we analyze the viability of use a particular models of scalar fields in the context of the galactic dark matter problem. These models are based on a single scalar field, minimally coupled to the gravity in a asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose A. Gonzalez , Daniel Sudarsky

We study the cosmological evolution of a scalar field in Horndeski gravity, assuming that the scalar field is subdominant with respect to the cosmic fluid. We first analyse the most general shift-symmetric action that respects local Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Nicola Franchini , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We investigate a cosmological model in which the Stueckelberg fields are non-minimally coupled to the scalar curvature in a gauge invariant manner. We present not only a solution that can be considered in the context of the late time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-04 Ozgur Akarsu , Metin Arik , Nihan Katirci , Mehmet Kavuk

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

The cosmological consequences of a slow rolling scalar field with constant kinetic term in analogy to the vertical movement of a skydiver after reaching terminal velocity are investigated. It is shown that the terminal scalar field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 F. E. M. Costa

We discuss a solution describing a rotating wormhole in the theory of gravity with a scalar field with negative kinetic energy. To solve the problem we use the assumption about slow rotation. The role of a small dimensionless parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 P. E. Kashargin , S. V. Sushkov

In order to give the standard scenario of the astrophysics, we study the Einstein theory with minimally coupled scalar field and the cosmological term by considering the scalar field as a candidate of the dark matter. We obtained the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 M. Kenmoku , M. Ohto , K. Shigemoto , K. Uehara

We consider four-dimensional wormholes immersed in bosonic matter. While their existence is based on the presence of a phantom field, many of their interesting physical properties are bestowed upon them by an ordinary complex scalar field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Christian Hoffmann , Theodora Ioannidou , Sarah Kahlen , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We obtain a family of regular static, spherically symmetric solutions in Einstein--Cartan theory with an electromagnetic field and a nonminimally coupled scalar field with the correct sign of kinetic energy density. At different values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 K. A. Bronnikov , A. M. Galiakhmetov

We show that a well-studied pseudo-Hermitian field theory composed of two complex scalar fields can generate accelerated cosmological expansion through a novel mechanism. The dynamics is unique to the pseudo-Hermitian field theory, and it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-24 Edmund J. Copeland , Andrei Lazanu , Peter Millington , Esra Sablevice