Quantum cosmology and late-time singularities

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/17/173001zbMATH Open1276.83001arXiv1307.5623OpenAlexW2130591495MaRDI QIDQ2854151FDOQ2854151

Authors: Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik 

Publication date: 17 October 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The development of dark energy models has stimulated interest to cosmological singularities, which differ from the traditional Big Bang and Big Crunch singularities. We review a broad class of phenomena connected with soft cosmological singularities in classical and quantum cosmology. We discuss the classification of singularities from the geometrical point of view and from the point of view of the behaviour of finite size objects, crossing such singularities. We discuss in some detail quantum and classical cosmology of models based on perfect fluids (anti-Chaplygin gas and anti-Chaplygin gas plus dust), of models based on the Born-Infeld-type fields and of the model of a scalar field with a potential inversely proportional to the field itself. We dwell also on the phenomenon of the phantom divide line crossing in the scalar field models with cusped potentials. Then we discuss the Friedmann equations modified by quantum corrections to the effective action of the models under considerations and the influence of such modification on the nature and the existence of soft singularities. We review also quantum cosmology of models, where the initial quantum state of the universe is presented by the density matrix (mixed state). Finally, we discuss the exotic singularities arising in the brane-world cosmological models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5623

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zbMATH Keywords

braneworlddark energyscalar fieldquantum cosmologycosmological singularitiesquantum correctionsanti-Chaplygin gasBig Crunch singularitiesBorn-Infeld-type fieldsexotic singularitieslate-time singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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