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Thermal inflation is an attractive solution to the cosmological moduli problem. However, domain walls may be formed after thermal inflation and some mechanisms are needed to eliminate the domain wall before it dominates the Universe. We…

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Although the cosmic concordance cosmology is quite successful in fitting data, fine tuning and coincidence problems apparently weaken it. We review several possibilities to ease its problems, by considering various kinds of dynamical Dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Bonometto , R. Mainini , L. P. L. Colombo

There are now two cosmological constant problems: (i) why the vacuum energy is so small and (ii) why it comes to dominate at about the epoch of galaxy formation. Anthropic selection appears to be the only approach that can naturally resolve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-06-20 Alexander Vilenkin

Analytical solutions of nonminimally coupled scalar field cosmology corresponding to critical scalar field values constitute a potential challenge to the recent first-order thermodynamics of scalar-tensor gravity (a formalism picturing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-11 Valerio Faraoni , Pierre-Antoine Graham , Alexandre Leblanc

Effective 4-dimensional theories are investigated which were obtained under dimensional reduction of multidimensional cosmological models with a minimal coupled scalar field as matter source. Conditions for the internal space stabilization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Guenther , A. Zhuk

We examine Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models in three spacetime dimensions. The matter content of the models is composed of a perfect fluid, with a $\gamma$-law equation of state, and a homogeneous scalar field minimally coupled to gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Norman Cruz , Cristian Martinez

Effective field theory provides a way of parameterizing strong-field deviations from General Relativity that might be observable in the gravitational waves emitted in a black hole merger. To perform numerical simulations of mergers in such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Aron D. Kovacs , Harvey S. Reall

Multiacceleration scenario can be used to solve the cosmological coincidence problem. In this paper, after considering the early radiation era, we revisit the cosmological dynamics of the oscillating dark energy model proposed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-08 S. X. Tian

Considering the mechanism of dissipative slow-roll that has been used in warm inflation scenario, we show that dissipation may alter usual cosmological scenarios associated with SUSY-flat directions. We mainly consider SUSY-flat directions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-14 Tomohiro Matsuda

The existence and detection of scalar fields could provide solutions to long-standing puzzles about the nature of dark matter, the dark compact objects at the centre of most galaxies, and other phenomena. Yet, self-interacting scalar fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Luciano Rezzolla

Cosmological issues of the gravitino production by the decay of a heavy scalar field $X$ are examined, assuming that the damped coherent oscillation of the scalar once dominates the energy of the universe. The coupling of the scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Takehiko Asaka , Shuntaro Nakamura , Masahiro Yamaguchi

Thermalization of classical fields is investigated in a \phi^4 scalar field theory in 1+1 dimensions, discretized on a lattice. We numerically integrate the classical equations of motion using initial conditions sampled from various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gert Aarts , Gian Franco Bonini , Christof Wetterich

There are hints, both from cosmology and from neutrino oscillation experiments, that one or two sterile neutrinos with eV masses are favored. We consider the implications of combining data from short baseline neutrino experiments with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-20 Jostein R. Kristiansen , Øystein Elgarøy , Carlo Giunti , Marco Laveder

We introduce a cosmological invisible decay of the sterile neutrino with the eV-scale mass indicated by short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments in order to allow its full thermalization in the early Universe. We show that the fit of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-12 S. Gariazzo , C. Giunti , M. Laveder

We present a phase-space analysis of cosmology containing multiple scalar fields with a positive or negative cross-coupling exponential potential. We show that there exist power-law kinetic-potential-scaling solutions for a sufficiently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Zong-Kuan Guo , Yun-Song Piao , Rong-Gen Cai , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

We present a phase-space analysis of cosmology containing multiple scalar fields with positive and negative exponential potentials. We show that there exist power-law multi-kinetic-potential scaling solutions for sufficiently flat positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Zong-Kuan Guo , Yun-Song Piao , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

Thermal misalignment provides an alternative to the standard misalignment mechanism for the cosmological production of scalar dark matter. In this framework, feeble couplings to particles in the thermal bath generate a finite-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Brian Batell , Akshay Ghalsasi , Subhajit Ghosh , Mudit Rai

The integrals of the Friedmann cosmology equations are identified as constant physical characteristics for both vacuum and non-vacuum cosmic energies. The integrals are found to be numerically coincident. A model shows that the coincidence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arthur D. Chernin

We discuss Casimir effect of a massless, minimally coupled scalar field in a 6D warped flux compactification model and its implications for the hierarchy and cosmological constant problems, which are longstanding puzzles in phenomenology…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Masato Minamitsuji

The evolution of cosmological large-scale perturbations is described in terms of the concordant model based on the recent discovery of cosmic vacuum. It is demonstrated that the process is robustly controlled by a few epoch-independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Arthur D. Chernin