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We present an anisotropic cosmological model based on a new exact solution of Einstein equations. The matter content consists of an anisotropic scalar field minimally coupled to gravity and of two isotropic perfect fluids that represent…

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We study the dynamics near finite-time singularities of flat isotropic universes filled with two interacting but otherwise arbitrary perfect fluids. The overall dynamical picture reveals a variety of asymptotic solutions valid locally…

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We investigate the robustness of some recent results obtained for homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models with conformally coupled scalar fields. For this purpose, we investigate anisotropic homogeneous solutions of the models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Raul Abramo , Leon Brenig , Edgard Gunzig , Alberto Saa

Exact particle-like static, spherically and/or cylindrically symmetric solutions to the equations of interacting scalar and electromagnetic field system have been obtained within the scope of general relativity. In particular, we considered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 B. Saha

The nature of the initial singularity in spatially compact plane symmetric scalar field cosmologies is investigated. It is shown that this singularity is crushing and velocity dominated and that the Kretschmann scalar diverges uniformly as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Alan D. Rendall

This is a short summary of a project to construct a first principles cosmology of the Standard Model epoch, the period starting shortly before the electro-weak transition. The cosmology is derived from a simple initial state entirely within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-14 Daniel Friedan

We consider scalar perturbations of energy-density for a class of cosmological models where an early phase of accelerated expansion evolves, without any fine-tuning for graceful exit, towards the standard Friedman eras of observed universe.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase , G. Scarpetta

We investigate in detail the qualitative behaviour of the class of Bianchi type B spatially homogeneous cosmological models in which the matter content is composed of two non-interacting components; the first component is described by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. P. Billyard , A. A. Coley , R. J. van den Hoogen , J. Ibanez , I. Olasagasti

We investigate cosmological models with a free scalar field and a viscous fluid. We find exact solutions for a linear and nonlinear viscosity pressure. Both yield singular and bouncing solutions. In the first regime, a de Sitter stage is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Luis P. Chimento , Alejandro S. Jakubi

Examples of nonsingular cosmological models are presented on the basis of exact solutions to multidimensional gravity equations. These examples involve pure imaginary scalar fields, or, in other terms, ``phantom'' fields with an unusual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bronnikov

This article examines the analytic solutions of isotropic spacetime with the minimal coupling of scalar field and matter in the context of energy-momentum squared gravity. The scalar field includes quintessence and phantom dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 M. Sharif , M. Zeeshan Gul

The mechanism of the initial inflationary scenario of the universe and of its late-time acceleration can be described by assuming the existence of some gravitationally coupled scalar fields $\phi $, with the inflaton field generating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-27 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , M. K. Mak

Spherically symmetric space-times provide many examples for interesting black hole solutions, which classically are all singular. Following a general program, space-like singularities in spherically symmetric quantum geometry, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Martin Bojowald

In this work we present some cosmologically relevant solutions using the spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime in metric $f(R)$ gravity where the form of the gravitational Lagrangian is given by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Pritha Bari , Kaushik Bhattacharya , Saikat Chakraborty

Models of inflationary cosmology admit a choice of the metric for which the geometry of homogeneous isotropic solutions becomes flat Minkowski space in the infinite past. In this primordial flat frame all mass scales vanish in the infinite…

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We revisit the classical and quantum cosmology of a universe in which a self interacting scalar field is coupled to gravity with a flat FRW type metric undergoing continuous signature transition. We arrange for quantum cosmologically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Darabi , A. Rastkar

There does not exist a notion of time which could be transferred straightforwardly from classical to quantum gravity. For this reason, a method of time quantification which would be appropriate for gravity quantization is being sought. One…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Anna Nakonieczna , Dong-han Yeom

This paper treats nonrelativistic matter and a scalar field $\phi$ with a monotonically decreasing potential minimally coupled to gravity in flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker cosmology. The field equations are reformulated as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Artur Alho , Claes Uggla

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

The work deals with homogeneous and isotropic, flat FRW model of the universe which is filled up with non-interacting dark matter and dark energy to compatible with recent observational evidences. By choosing the dark energy in the form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-09 Nilanjana Mahata , Subenoy Chakraborty