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We compute the primordial scalar, vector and tensor metric perturbations arising from quantum field inflation. Quantum field inflation takes into account the nonperturbative quantum dynamics of the inflaton consistently coupled to the…

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The slow-roll approximation is an analytical approach to study dynamical properties of the inflationary universe. In this article, systematic construction of the slow-roll expansion for effective loop quantum cosmology is presented. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Joanna Luc , Jakub Mielczarek

This introductory review is addressed to beginning researchers. Some of the distinguishing features of loop quantum gravity are illustrated through loop quantum cosmology of FRW models. In particular, these examples illustrate: i) how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Abhay Ashtekar

The FRW model with non-minimally coupled massive scalar field has been investigated in LQC framework. Considered form of the potential and coupling allows applications to Higgs driven inflation. Out of two frames used in the literature to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Michal Artymowski , Andrea Dapor , Tomasz Pawlowski

The goal of spin foam models is to provide a viable path integral formulation of quantum gravity. Because of background independence, their underlying framework has certain novel features that are not shared by path integral formulations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-25 Abhay Ashtekar , Miguel Campiglia , Adam Henderson

A detailed comparative qualitative analysis and numerical simulation of evolution of the cosmological models based on classical and phantom scalar fields with self-action was performed. The phase portraits of the dynamic systems of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Yurii Ignat'ev , Alexander Agathonov , Irina Kokh

The semiclassical interaction of the gravitational with a quantum scalar field is considered, in view of the renormalizability of the associated energy-momentum tensor in a n-dimensional curved spacetime resulting from a quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Kostas Kleidis

We go a step further in the search for a consistent and realistic supergravity model of large-field inflation by building a class of models with the following features: during slow-roll, all the scalar fields other than the inflaton are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Gianguido Dall'Agata , Fabio Zwirner

We obtain effective equations of inflationary dynamics for the mean inflaton and metric fields in the no-boundary and tunneling quantum states of the Universe. In the slow roll approximation (taking the form of the local Schwiger-DeWitt…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

We consider the description of cosmological dynamics from the onset of inflation by a perfect fluid whose parameters must be consistent with the strength of the enhanced quantum loop effects that can arise during inflation. The source of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

Inflationary models, especially those with plateau-type potentials, are consistent with the cosmological data, but inflation itself does not resolve the initial singularity. This singularity is resolved, for example, by the idea of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Hiroki Matsui , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Fuminobu Takahashi , Takahiro Terada

We conduct a (pre-)inflationary dynamics study within the framework of a simple noncommutative extension of effective loop quantum cosmology -- put forward recently by the authors -- which preserves its key features (in particular, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Luis Rey Díaz-Barrón , Abraham Espinoza-García , S. Pérez-Payán , J. Socorro

Quantization implies independent degrees of freedom that do not appear in the classical theory, given by fluctuations, correlations, and higher moments of a state. A systematic derivation of the resulting dynamical systems is presented here…

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Phenomenological effect of the super-inflation in loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is discussed. We investigate the case that the Universe is filled with the interacting field between massive scalar field and radiation. Considering the damping…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-28 Kui Xiao , Xiao-Kai He , Jian-Yang Zhu

We study inflation for a quantum scalar electrodynamics model in curved space-time and for higher-derivative quantum gravity (QG) coupled with scalar electrodynamics. The corresponding renormalization-group (RG) improved potential is…

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We propose a model for early universe cosmology without the need for fundamental scalar fields. Cosmic acceleration and phenomenologically viable reheating of the universe results from a series of energy transitions, where during each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Watson , Malcolm J. Perry , Gordon L. Kane , Fred C. Adams

We study the evolution of spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker universe for chaotic and Starobinsky potentials in the framework of modified loop quantum cosmologies. These models result in a non-singular bounce as in loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-18 Bao-Fei Li , Parampreet Singh , Anzhong Wang

One common approach for cosmic inflation consists in couple Einstein's gravity with a scalar field, often referred to inflaton field. In order to derive analytic simple scenarios, we usually work in the {\it slow-roll} regime. In such an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 J. R. L. Santos , P. H. R. S. Moraes

We revisit an inflationary scenario in which primordial inhomogeneities arise from a quantum collapse, a stochastic mechanism described in the context of quantum collapse theories in its continuous version and within semiclassical gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 María Pía Piccirilli , Gabriel León , Rosa-Laura Lechuga-Solis , Daniel Sudarsky

We investigate uniform rate inflationary universe in the framework of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) and find that this seemingly simple inflationary model is interlinked with various concepts such as cyclic evolution, HNI inflation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 Bikash Chandra Paul , Sahil Saini