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This paper reviews the dynamics of an isotropic and homogeneous cosmological scalar field. A general approach to the solution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations is developed, which does not require slow-roll or other approximations.…

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We study topological defects with a general structure in higher-dimensional cosmological backgrounds described by a set of angle deficit parameters. As special cases, they include higher-dimensional generalizations of cosmic strings and…

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We develop a technique for the reconstruction of the potential for a scalar field or a tachyon field, reproducing a given cosmological evolution in a closed and open isotropic cosmological models. Such potentials are explicitly written down…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Alexander Y. Kamenshchik , Serena Manti

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a popular technique for mapping a finite metric space into a low-dimensional Euclidean space in a way that best preserves pairwise distances. We study a notion of MDS on infinite metric measure spaces,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Lara Kassab

We present a scale-invariant theory, conformal gravity, which closely resembles the geometrodynamical formulation of general relativity (GR). While previous attempts to create scale-invariant theories of gravity have been based on Weyl's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Edward Anderson , Julian Barbour , Brendan Foster , Niall O'Murchadha

The authors study the method of scaling in the context of the study of automorphism groups of complex domains in multiple dimensions. Various types of scaling techniques are compared and contrasted. Applications are given in a number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kang-Tae Kim , Steven G. Krantz

In this work, a cosmological model is considered having two scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity with a mixed kinetic term. The model is characterized by the coupling function and the potential function which are assumed to depend on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-17 Santu Mondal , Roshni Bhaumik , Sourav Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

This paper constructs continuously self-similar solution of a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a scalar field in n dimensions. The qualitative behavior of these solutions is explained, and closed-form answers are provided…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Andrei V. Frolov

We generalize the classical Multidimensional Scaling procedure to the setting of general metric measure spaces. We develop a related spectral theory for the generalized cMDS operator, which provides a more natural and rigorous mathematical…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Sunhyuk Lim , Facundo Memoli

We consider a model for gravity that is invariant under global scale transformations. It includes one extra real scalar field coupled non-minimally to the gravity fields. In this model all the dimensionful parameters like the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-06 Pankaj Jain , Purnendu Karmakar , Subhadip Mitra , Sukanta Panda , Naveen K. Singh

We study the integrable model with minimally and non-minimally coupled scalar fields and the correspondence of their general solutions. Using the model with a minimally coupled scalar field and a the constant potential as an example we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-24 A. Yu. Kamenshchik , E. O. Pozdeeva , A. Tronconi , G. Venturi , S. Yu. Vernov

Using canonical quantization of a flat FRW cosmological model containing a real scalar field $\phi$ endowed with a scalar potential $V(\phi)$, we are able to obtain exact and semiclassical solutions of the so called Wheeler-DeWitt equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Guzman , M. Sabido , J. Socorro , L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

The formalism for describing a metric and the corresponding scalar in terms of multipole moments has recently been developed for scalar-tensor theories. We take advantage of this formalism in order to obtain expressions for the observables…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 George Pappas , Thomas P. Sotiriou

A set of scaling laws, based on the stochastic motions of the granular components of astronomical systems, is applied to a cosmological model with a positive cosmological constant. It follows that the mass of the dominant particle in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-04 S. Capozziello , S. Funkhouser

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 argue that standard tools of holography can be used to describe fully non-perturbative microscopic models of cosmology in which a period of accelerated expansion may result from the positive potential energy of time-dependent scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Stefano Antonini , Petar Simidzija , Brian Swingle , Mark Van Raamsdonk

In this article we present a new exact solution for scalar field with cosmological constant in cylindrical symmetry. Associated cosmological models is discussed. One of them describes a Cyclic universe.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-07 Davood Momeni , H. Miraghaei

The scalar fields of supersymmetric models are coordinates of a geometric space. We propose a formulation of supersymmetry that is covariant with respect to reparametrizations of this target space. Employing chiral multiplets as an example,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Daniel Z. Freedman , Diederik Roest , Antoine Van Proeyen

Were investigated anisotropic metric of higher dimensional space-time with only cosmological term and scalar field. Showed, that presence of scalar field is equivalent to anisotropic metric in the multy dimensional space-time and proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-01 Sergey V. Yakovlev

Considering the physical 3-space t = constant of the spacetime metrics as spheroidal and pseudo spheroidal, cosmological models which are generalizations of Robertson-Walker models are obtained. Specific forms of these general models as…

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