Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric

About: Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4113 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87752 citations. The topic is also known as: FLRW metric.

Cosmological Cutting Rules

Abstract: Primordial perturbations in our universe are believed to have a quantum origin, and can be described by the wavefunction of the universe (or equivalently, cosmological correlators). It follows that these observables must carry the imprint of the founding principle of quantum mechanics: unitary time evolution. Indeed, it was recently discovered that unitarity implies an infinite set of relations among tree-level wavefunction coefficients, dubbed the Cosmological Optical Theorem. Here, we show that unitarity leads to a systematic set of “Cosmological Cutting Rules” which constrain wavefunction coefficients for any number of fields and to any loop order. These rules fix the discontinuity of an n-loop diagram in terms of lower-loop diagrams and the discontinuity of tree-level diagrams in terms of tree-level diagrams with fewer external fields. Our results apply with remarkable generality, namely for arbitrary interactions of fields of any mass and any spin with a Bunch-Davies vacuum around a very general class of FLRW spacetimes. As an application, we show how one-loop corrections in the Effective Field Theory of inflation are fixed by tree-level calculations and discuss related perturbative unitarity bounds. These findings greatly extend the potential of using unitarity to bootstrap cosmological observables and to restrict the space of consistent effective field theories on curved spacetimes.

Plasma electrodynamics in the expanding Universe

Abstract: The 3+1 formalism of Thorne and Macdonald is used to formulate the electrodynamic equations for a plasma in a spatially flat Robertson-Walker metric. The conformal flatness of this space-time ensures that these equations closely mirror those of flat space-time. The linearized Vlasov-Maxwell equations are solved for the case of an unmagnetized plasma of ultrarelativistic particles and antiparticles, and the results are compared with those of classical kinetic theory and quantum field theory in special relativity. The Vlasov-Maxwell equations for a plasma of nonrelativistic particles are not conformally invariant, so a fluid approximation is used to obtain the linear modes of oscillation, again for an unmagnetized plasma. The plasma modes redshift at rates which depend on the rate of expansion of the Universe, and whether the electromagnetic fields or the particles dominate the dynamics.

Fine-tuning free paradigm of two-measures theory: k-essence, absence of initial singularity of the curvature, and inflation with graceful exit to the zero cosmological constant state

Abstract: The dilaton-gravity sector of the two-measures field theory (TMT) is explored in detail in the context of spatially flat Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology. The model possesses scale invariance which is spontaneously broken due to the intrinsic features of the TMT dynamics. The dilaton {phi} dependence of the effective Lagrangian appears only as a result of the spontaneous breakdown of the scale invariance. If no fine-tuning is made, the effective {phi}-Lagrangian p({phi},X) depends quadratically upon the kinetic term X. Hence TMT represents an explicit example of the effective k-essence resulting from first principles without any exotic term in the underlying action intended for obtaining this result. Depending of the choice of regions in the parameter space (but without fine-tuning), TMT exhibits different possible outputs for cosmological dynamics: (a) Absence of initial singularity of the curvature while its time derivative is singular. This is a sort of sudden singularities studied by Barrow on purely kinematic grounds. (b) Power law inflation in the subsequent stage of evolution. Depending on the region in the parameter space the inflation ends with a graceful exit either into the state with zero cosmological constant (CC) or into the state driven by both a small CC and the fieldmore » {phi} with a quintessencelike potential. (c) Possibility of resolution of the old CC problem. From the point of view of TMT, it becomes clear why the old CC problem cannot be solved (without fine-tuning) in conventional field theories. (d) TMT enables two ways for achieving small CC without fine-tuning of dimensionful parameters: either by a seesaw type mechanism or due to a correspondence principle between TMT and conventional field theories (i.e. theories with only the measure of integration {radical}(-g) in the action). (e) There is a wide range of the parameters such that in the late time universe: the equation of state w=p/{rho}<-1; w asymptotically (as t{yields}{infinity}) approaches -1 from below; {rho} approaches a constant, the smallness of which does not require fine-tuning of dimensionful parameters.« less

Correspondence between DBI-essence and modified Chaplygin gas and the generalized second law of thermodynamics

Abstract: In this work, we have considered the DBI-essence dark energy model in FRW Universe. We have found the exact solutions of potential, warped brane tension and DBI scalar field. We also calculate the statefinder parameters for our model that make it distinguishable among numerous dark energy models. Moreover, we establish correspondence between DBI-essence and modified Chaplygin gas (MCG) and hence reconstruct the potential and warped brane tension. By this reconstruction, we observe that DBI scalar field and potential increase and warped brane tension decreases during evolution of the Universe. Finally, we investigate the validity of the generalized second law (GSL) of thermodynamics in the presence of DBI-essence and modified Chaplygin gas. It is observed that the GSL breaks down for DBI-essence model but GSL always satisfied for MCG model.

Brane cosmological evolution in a bulk with cosmological constant

Abstract: We consider the cosmology of a ``3-brane universe'' in a five dimensional (bulk) space-time with a cosmological constant. We show that Einstein's equations admit a first integral, analogous to the first Friedmann equation, which governs the evolution of the metric in the brane, whatever the time evolution of the metric along the fifth dimension. We thus obtain the cosmological evolution in the brane for any equation of state describing the matter in the brane, without needing the dependence of the metric on the fifth dimension. In the particular case $p = w \rho$, $(w = constant)$, we give explicit expressions for the time evolution of the brane scale factor, which show that standard cosmological evolution can be obtained (after an early non conventional phase) in a scenario a la Randall and Sundrum, where a brane tension compensates the bulk cosmological constant. We also show that a tiny deviation from exact compensation leads to an effective cosmological constant at late time. Moreover, when the metric along the fifth dimension is static, we are able to extend the solution found on the brane to the whole spacetime.