English
Related papers

Related papers: Inhomogeneous scalar field solutions and inflation

200 papers

We discuss a model of gravity coupled to a scalar field that admits exact cosmological solutions displaying an inflationary behavior at early times and a power-law expansion at late times.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Mignemi , N. Pintus

We briefly review the arising of an inflationary phase in the Universe evolution in order to discuss an inhomogeneous cosmological solution in presence of a real self interacting scalar field minimally coupled to gravity in the region of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Imponente

Solutions of gravitational equations of gauge theories of gravity in homogeneous isotropic world with massive scalar field are investigated in the case of flat cosmological models. Special attention is dedicated to general behavior of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. V. Vereshchagin

We investigate homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models in scalar-tensor theories of gravity where two scalar fields are nonminimally coupled to the geometry. Exact solutions are found, by Noether symmetries, depending on the form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase

We explore the inflationary phase of a scalar field with a kinetic term non-minimally coupled to gravity. We find that one of the slow-roll conditions is naturally consequence of the equation of motion of the scalar field. Thus, slow-roll…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 Amir Ghalee

We derive a set of equations monitoring the evolution of covariant and gauge-invariant linear scalar perturbations of Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker models with multiple interacting non-linear scalar fields. We use a dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-06 Artur Alho , Filipe C. Mena

We analyze cosmological perturbations to the linear order in the context of inflation with an arbitrary number of scalar fields. The fields take values on a non-trivial manifold with a positive-definite metric and are non-minimally coupled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joydev Lahiri , Gautam Bhattacharya

Some exact solutions for the Einstein field equations corresponding to inhomogeneous $G_2$ cosmologies with an exponential-potential scalar field which generalize solutions obtained previously are considered. Several particular cases are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 A. Feinstein , J. Ibáñez , P. Labraga

An algorithm is used to generate new solutions of the scalar field equations in homogeneous and isotropic universes. Solutions can be found for pure scalar fields with various potentials in the absence and presence of spatial curvature and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 John D. Barrow , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We investigate the cosmological model with the complex scalar self-interacting inflaton field non-minimally coupled to gravity. The different geometries of the Euclidean classically forbidden regions are represented. The instanton solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. Yu. Kamenshchik , I. M. Khalatnikov , A. V. Toporensky

Recently the vector inflation has been proposed as the alternative to inflationary models based on scalar bosons and quintessence scalar fields. In the vector inflationary model, the vector field non-minimally couples to gravity. We should,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-06 Takuya Maki , Yuji Naramoto , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

In this study, we investigate swampland conjectures within the setup of matter and non-metricity nonminimal coupling theories of gravity. We examine how the inflationary solution produced by a single scalar field can be resolved with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-01 Sanjay Mandal , Kazuharu Bamba

Motivated by the gauge theory of gravity with local scaling symmetry proposed recently in 1712.04537 and 1506.01807, we investigate whether the scalar field therein can be responsible for the inflation. We show that the classical theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-07 Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

New exact solutions of Einstein's gravity coupled to a self-interacting conformal scalar field are derived in this work. Our approach extends a solution-generating technique originally introduced by Bekenstein for massless conformal scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 João P. Abreu , Paulo Crawford , José P. Mimoso

We obtain exact solutions for the Einstein equations with an exponential-potential scalar field (\(V=\Lambda e^{k\phi}\)) which represent simple inhomogeneous generalizations of Bianchi I cosmologies. Studying these equations numerically we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 J. M. Aguirregabiria , A. Feinstein , J. Ibanez

We study the possibility that inflation is driven by a scalar field together with a vector field minimally coupled to gravity. By assuming an effective potential that incorporates both fields into the action, we explore two distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Ramon Herrera

A scale-invariant universe can have a period of accelerated expansion at early times: inflation. We use a frame-invariant approach to calculate inflationary observables in a scale invariant theory of gravity involving two scalar fields -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 Pedro G. Ferreira , Christopher T. Hill , Johannes Noller , Graham G. Ross

We investigate gauge invariant scalar fluctuations of the metric during inflation in a non-perturbative formalism in the framework of a recently introduced scalar-tensor theory of gravity formulated on a Weyl-Integrable geometry. We found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-05 M. L. Pucheu , C. Romero , M. Bellini , José Edgar Madriz Aguilar

We consider a cosmological model in a Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker background space with an ideal gas defined in Weyl Integrable gravity. In the Einstein-Weyl theory a scalar field is introduced in a geometric way.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-24 Andronikos Paliathanasis

In this paper we provide approximate analytical analysis of stability of nonsingular inflationary chaotic-type cosmological models. Initial conditions for nonsingular solutions at the bounce correspond to dominance of potential part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. V. Vereshchagin
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›