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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

For models of dilaton-gravity with a possible exponential potential, such as the tensor-scalar sector of IIA supergravity, we show how cosmological solutions correspond to trajectories in a 2D Milne space (parametrized by the dilaton and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 E. A. Bergshoeff , A. Collinucci , D. Roest , J. G. Russo , P. K. Townsend

Regular bouncing solutions in the framework of a scalar-tensor gravity model were found in a recent work. We reconsider the problem in the Einstein frame (EF) in the present work. Singularities arising at the limit of physical viability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 B. Boisseau , H. Giacomini , D. Polarski

We study the possible singularities of isotropic cosmological models that have a varying speed of light as well as a varying gravitational constant. The field equations typically reduce to two dimensional systems which are then analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John Miritzis , Spiros Cotsakis

We show that a general, exact cosmological solution, where dynamics of scalar field is assigned by an exponential potential, fulfils all the issues of dark energy approach, both from a theoretical point of view and in comparison with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Rubano , P. Scudellaro , E. Piedipalumbo , S. Capozziello , M. Capone

In this paper we investigate the accelerating and decelerating cosmological models with non-linear spinor fields and non-minimal interaction of $f(R)$ gravity with a scalar field. We combine two different approaches to the description of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-12 Yu. A. Rybalov , A. N. Makarenko , K. E. Osetrin

Scalar-tensor theories have shown great potential in inducing tailored modifications compared to cosmic evolution in the $\Lambda$CDM model. We reconsider quintessence models in this work in the context of three driving potentials. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 L. K. Duchaniya , Jackson Levi Said , B. Mishra

Cosmological correlators are very important objects in cosmology as they offer us a huge amount of information of the early universe. They reside on the future boundary of a de Sitter space and can be calculated by two methods. First method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 Nirmalya Brahma

Exact cosmological models for a scalar field in Lyra geometry are studied in the presence of a time-varying effective cosmological term originated from the specific interaction of an auxiliary $\Lambda$ - term with the displacement vector.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-25 V. K. Shchigolev

Using developed earlier our methods for multidimensional models \cite{M1,M2,M3} a family of cosmological-type solutions in D-dimensional model with two sets of scalar fields \vec{\phi} and \vec{\psi} and exponential potential depending upon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. -M. Alimi , V. D. Ivashchuk , V. N. Melnikov

We study an analytical solution to the Einstein's equations in 2+1-dimensions. The space-time is dynamical and has a line symmetry. The matter content is a minimally coupled, massless, scalar field. Depending on the value of certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Oliveira-Neto

We study the role that tachyon fields may play in cosmology as compared to the well-established use of minimally coupled scalar fields. We first elaborate on a kind of correspondence existing between tachyons and minimally coupled scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Gorini , A. Yu. Kamenshchik , U. Moschella , V. Pasquier

The Multi-scalar field cosmology of the anisotropic Bianchi type I model is used in order to construct a family of potentials that are the best suited to model the inflation phenomenon. We employ the quantum potential approach to quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-03 J. Socorro , Omar E. Núñez

One-parameter solutions in supergravity carried by scalars and a metric trace out curves on the scalar manifold. In ungauged supergravity these curves describe a geodesic motion. It is known that a geodesic motion sometimes occurs in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wissam Chemissany , André ploegh , Thomas Van Riet

In this work we use the Loop Quantum Cosmology modified scalar-tensor reconstruction techniques in order to investigate how bouncing and inflationary cosmologies can be realized. With regard to the inflationary cosmologies, we shall be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 K. Kleidis , V. K. Oikonomou

We consider the possibility of energy being exchanged between the scalar and matter fields in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Such an exchange provides a new mechanism which can drive variations in the gravitational 'constant' G. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-14 T. Clifton , John D. Barrow

We consider scalar-tensor theory for describing varying speed of light in a spatially flat FRW space-time. We find some exact solutions in the metric and Palatini formalisms. Also we examine the dynamics of this theory by dynamical system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-23 Mahmood Roshan , Maryam Nouri , Fatimah Shojai

We study a known class of scalar dark energy models in which the potential is of exponential type and the current accelerating era is transient. We find that, although a decelerating era will return in future, however, when extrapolating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Wenping Cui , Yang Zhang , Zhengwen Fu

We study the dynamics of light quantum scalar fields in de Sitter space on superhorizon scales. We compute the self-energy of an O(N) symmetric theory at next-to-leading order in a 1/N expansion in the regime of superhorizon momenta, and we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Florian Gautier , Julien Serreau

In this article, we investigate scalar field cosmology in the coincident $f(Q)$ gravity formalism. We calculate the motion equations of $f(Q)$ gravity under the flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker background in the presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-12 Sayantan Ghosh , Raja Solanki , P. K. Sahoo