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The model of vacuum energy compensation due to interaction of a scalar field $\phi$ with curvature scalar of the form $\beta R \phi^2 f(\phi) $ is proposed. It is shown that with a simple power form of $f(\phi)$ the exponential expansion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 E. V. Arbuzova , A. D. Dolgov

We study the cosmological evolution of a complex scalar field with a self-interaction potential $V(|\varphi|^2)$, possibly describing self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates, using a fully general relativistic treatment. We generalize…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Abril Suárez , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

A mechanism for suppressing the cosmological constant is developed, based on an analogy with a superconducting phaseshift in which free fermions coupled perturbatively to a weak gravitational field are in an unstable false vacuum state. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephon Alexander , Manasse Mbonye , John Moffat

We investigate the evolution of a universe with a decaying cosmological term (vacuum energy) that is assumed to be a function of the scale factor. In this model, while the cosmological term increases to the early universe, the radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Riou Nakamura , Masa-aki Hashimoto , Kiyotomo Ichiki

We investigate various dark energy models by taking into account the thermal effects induced from Hawking radiation on the apparent horizon of the Universe, for example near a finite-time future singularity. If the dark energy density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Artyom V. Astashenok , Sergei D. Odintsov , Vasilis K. Oikonomou

In this publication we investigate dynamics of a flat FRW cosmological model with a non-minimally coupled scalar field with the coupling term $\xi R \psi^{2}$ in the scalar field action. The quadratic potential function $V(\psi)\propto…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-06 Orest Hrycyna , Marek Szydlowski

We consider a higher dimensional gravity theory with a negative kinetic energy scalar field and a cosmological constant. We find that the theory admits an exact cosmological solution for the scale factor of our universe. It has the feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. T. Hong , J. Lee , T. H. Lee , P. OH

An analysis is presented of the Bianchi type I cosmological models with a bulk viscosity when the universe is filled with the stiff fluid $p = \epsilon$ while the viscosity is a power function of the energy density, such as $\eta = \alpha…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Wung-Hong Huang

In hep-th/0506040 we discussed a classically constrained model of gravity. This theory contains known solutions of General Relativity (GR), and admits solutions that are absent in GR. Here we study cosmological implications of some of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gregory Gabadadze , Yanwen Shang

A hierarchically small weak scale does not generally coincide with enhanced symmetry, but it may still be exceptional with respect to vacuum energy. By analyzing the classical vacuum energy as a function of parameters such as the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-09 Clifford Cheung , Prashant Saraswat

We study the effects of inhomogeneities on the evolution of the Universe, by considering a range of cosmological models with discretized matter content. This is done using exact and fully relativistic methods that exploit the symmetries in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Timothy Clifton , Daniele Gregoris , Kjell Rosquist , Reza Tavakol

In this work we examine the 2025 DESI analysis of dark energy, which suggests that dark energy is evolving in time with an increasing equation of state $w$. We explore a wide range of quintessence models, described by a potential function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Husam Adam , Mark P. Hertzberg , Daniel Jiménez-Aguilar , Iman Khan

We continue developing cosmological models involving nilpotent chiral superfields, which provide a simple unified description of inflation and the current acceleration of the universe in the supergravity context. We describe here a general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-31 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Marco Scalisi

Bianchi type I cosmological models are studied that contain a stiff fluid with a shear viscosity that is a power function of the energy density, such as $\zeta = \alpha \epsilon^n$. These models are analyzed by describing the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Wung-Hong Huang

In this paper, we investigate a non-canonical scalar field model in the background dynamics of anisotropic Locally Rotationally Symmetric (LRS) Bianchi type I universe where gravity is coupled minimally to scalar field which is taken as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Sujoy Bhanja , Goutam Mandal , Abdulla Al Mamon , Sujay Kr. Biswas

In many cases a nonlinear scalar field with potential $V$ can lead to accelerated expansion in cosmological models. This paper contains mathematical results on this subject for homogeneous spacetimes. It is shown that, under the assumption…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alan D. Rendall

We consider the cosmological application of a (variant of) relatively newly proposed model \cite{1609.06915} unifying inflation, dark energy, dark matter, and the Higgs mechanism. The model was originally defined using additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-21 Denitsa Staicova , Michail Stoilov

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 investigate tachyon dynamics with an inverse power-law potential $V(\phi) \propto \phi^{-\alpha}$. We find global attractors of the dynamics leading to a dust behaviour for $\alpha > 2$ and to an accelerating universe for $0 < \alpha \le…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 L. Raul W. Abramo , Fabio Finelli

We explore the dynamics and evolution of the Universe at early and late times, focusing on both dark energy and extended gravity models and their astrophysical and cosmological consequences. Modified theories of gravity not only provide an…