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Vector fields and line fields, their counterparts without orientations on tangent lines, are familiar objects in the theory of dynamical systems. Among the techniques used in their study, the Morse--Smale decomposition of a (generic) field…

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Relative entropy is a powerful measure of the dissimilarity between two statistical field theories in the continuum. In this work, we study the relative entropy between Gaussian scalar field theories in a finite volume with different masses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-28 Markus Schröfl , Stefan Floerchinger

We study the physics of a single discrete gravitational extra dimension using the effective field theory for massive gravitons. We first consider a minimal discretization with 4D gravitons on the sites and nearest neighbor hopping terms. At…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Matthew D. Schwartz

We investigate the conditions under which cosmological variations in physical `constants' and scalar fields are detectable on the surface of local gravitationally-bound systems, such as planets, in non-spherically symmetric background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Douglas J. Shaw , John D. Barrow

In this work, considering the background dynamics of flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker(FLRW) model of the universe, we investigate a scalar field model as dark energy candidate which interacting with the pressure-less dust as dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-25 Goutam Mandal , Soumya Chakraborty , Sudip Mishra , Sujay Kr. Biswas

We assume that the points in volumes smaller than an elementary volume (which may have a Planck size) are indistinguishable in any physical experiment. This naturally leads to a picture of a discrete space with a finite number of degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Ali H. Chamseddine , Viatcheslav Mukhanov

Recently Gambini and Pullin proposed a new consistent discrete approach to quantum gravity and applied it to cosmological models. One remarkable result of this approach is that the cosmological singularity can be avoided in a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 Yi Ling

A four dimensional scalar field theory with quartic and of higher power interactions suffers the triviality issue at the quantum level. This is due to coupling constants that, contrary to the physical expectations, seem to grow without a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Artur R. Pietrykowski

Gravitation and the standard model of particle physics are incorporated within a single conformal scalar-tensor theory, where the scalar field is complex. The Higgs field has a dynamical expectation value, as has the Planck mass, but the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-24 Meir Shimon

The field theoretic action for gravitational interactions in d+2 dimensions is constructed in the formalism of 2T-physics. General Relativity in d dimensions emerges as a shadow of this theory with one less time and one less space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Itzhak Bars

A discrete field formalism exposes the physical meaning and origins of gauge fields, their symmetries and singularities. They represent a lack of a stricter field-source coherence.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoelito M. de Souza

A model for quantized gravity coupled to matter in the form of a single scalar field is investigated in four dimensions. For the metric degrees of freedom we employ Regge's simplicial discretization, with the scalar fields defined at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

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

We investigate spatially flat isotropic cosmological models which contain a scalar field with an exponential potential and a perfect fluid with a linear equation of state. We include an interaction term, through which the energy of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew P. Billyard , Alan A. Coley

Fundamental fields are a natural outcome in cosmology and particle physics and might therefore serve as a proxy for more complex interactions. The equivalence principle implies that all forms of matter gravitate, and one therefore expects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Hirotada Okawa , Helvi Witek , Vitor Cardoso

We consider an extended scalar-tensor theory of gravity where the action has two interacting scalar fields, a Brans-Dicke field which makes the effective Newtonian constant a function of coordinates and a Higgs field which has derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Soumya Chakrabarti

We investigate dynamics of scalar field with non-minimal kinetic term. Nontrivial behavior of the field in the vicinity of singular points of kinetic term is observed. In particular, the singular points could serve as attractor for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 H. Kröger , G. Melkonyan , S. G. Rubin

We analyze a new class of static exact solutions of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton gravity with arbitrary scalar coupling constant $\alpha$, representing a gravitational body endowed with electromagnetic dipole moment. This class possesses mass,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Matos

We outline a field theory on a multifractal spacetime. The measure in the action is characterized by a varying Hausdorff dimension and logarithmic oscillations governed by a fundamental physical length. A fine hierarchy of length scales…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-29 Gianluca Calcagni

Nonperturbative treatments of the UV limit of pure gravity suggest that it admits a stable fixed point with positive Newton's constant and cosmological constant. We prove that this result is stable under the addition of a scalar field with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Roberto Percacci , Daniele Perini