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G. Oliveira-Neto

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arXiv2025

Resonances in the early Universe

In the present paper, we study a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) quantum cosmology model with positively curved spatial sections. The matter content of the model is given by a radiation fluid, a Generalized Chaplygin gas, and an ad hoc potential. After writing the Hamiltonian of the model, we notice that the effective potential ($V_{eff}$) depends on four parameters: $A$, $B$ and $\alpha$ associated with the Generalized Chaplygin gas, and $\sigma$ associated with the ad hoc potential. Depending on the values of these parameters $V_{eff}$ becomes a double barrier potential. We quantize the model and obtain the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. We solve that equation using the WKB approximation and compute the corresponding probability ($TP_{WKB}$) that the wavefunction of the universe tunnels through the double barrier potential $V_{eff}$. We study how $TP_{WKB}$ behaves as a function of the parameters $A$, $B$, $\alpha$, $\sigma$ and the radiation energy $E$. We notice the occurrence of resonances in $TP_{WKB}$ when we vary it as a function of $E$, $A$, $B$, $\alpha$ and $\sigma$. It is a very interesting phenomenon because it may cause the universe to be born with selected values of $E$, $A$, $B$, $\alpha$ and $\sigma$.

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arXiv2025

Noncommutative Bianchi I and III Cosmology Models: Radiation Era Dynamics and gamma Estimation

Understanding the early evolution of the universe requires models that incorporate possible quantum and anisotropic effects in its dynamics. In this work, we analyze the dynamical evolution of locally rotationally symmetric anisotropic cosmological models of Bianchi type I (flat curvature) and Bianchi type III (open curvature) within a noncommutative phase space framework characterized by a deformation parameter gamma. Using a Hamiltonian formulation based on Schutz formalism for a perfect radiation fluid, we introduce noncommutative Poisson brackets that allow for geometric corrections to commutative dynamics. The resulting equations are solved numerically under various initial conditions, enabling the study of the impact of gamma and the energy density C on the universe expansion and anisotropy evolution. The results show that gamma < 0 enhances expansion and favors isotropization, while gamma > 0 tends to slow expansion and preserve residual anisotropy, especially in the open curvature model. It is estimated that the influence of non-commutativity was significant during the early stages of the universe, decreasing toward the present time, suggesting that this approach could serve as an effective alternative to the cosmological constant in describing the evolution of the early universe.

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arXiv2025

Quantum Creation of a FRW Universe: applying the Riesz fractional derivative

In this work, we apply fractional calculus to study quantum cosmology. Specifically, our Wheeler-DeWitt equation includes a FRW geometry, a radiation fluid, a positive cosmological constant, and an ad hoc potential; we employ the Riesz fractional derivative, which brings a parameter $α$, where $1 < α\leq 2$, appearing explicitly in the mentioned equation. We investigate numerically the tunnelling probability for the Universe to emerge using a suitable WKB approximation. Our findings are as follows. When we decrease the value for $α$, the tunnelling probability also decreases, suggesting that if fractional features could be considered to ascertain among different early universe scenarios, then the value $α=2$ (meaning strict locality and standard cosmology) would be the most likely. Finally, our results also allow for an interesting discussion between selecting values for $Λ$ (in a non-fractional conventional set-up) versus balancing, e.g., both $Λ$ and $α$ in the fractional framework. Concretely, the probability transition in the former if, e.g., $Λ=0.7$, is very close to the value computed if in the latter we employ instead, e.g., $Λ=1.5$ and $α=1.9397961$.

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arXiv2024

Primordial dust universe in the Hořava-Lifshitz theory

We apply quantum cosmology to investigate the early moments of a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmological model, using Hořava-Lifshitz (HL) as the gravitational theory. The matter content of the model is a dust perfect fluid. We start studying the classical model. Then, we write the total Hamiltonian of the model, quantize it and find the appropriate Wheeler-DeWitt equation. In order to avoid factor ordering ambiguities, in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we introduce a canonical transformation. We solve that equation using the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation and compute the tunneling probabilities for the birth of that universe ($TP_{WKB}$). Since the WKB wavefunction depends on the dust energy and the free coupling constants coming from the HL theory, we compute the behavior of $TP_{WKB}$ as a function of all these quantities.

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arXiv2024

A noncommutative Bianchi I model with radiation

In the present work, we study the dynamical evolution of an homogeneous and anisotropic, noncommutative (NC) Bianchi I (BI) model coupled to a radiation perfect fluid. Our first motivation is determining if the present model tends to an homogeneous and isotropic NC Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model, during its evolution. In order to simplify our task, we use the Misner parametrization of the BI metric. In terms of that parametrization the BI metric has three metric functions: the scale factor $a(t)$ and the two parameters $β_\pm (t)$, which measure the spatial anisotropy of the model. Our second motivation is trying to describe the present accelerated expansion of the universe using noncommutativity (NCTY). The NCTY is introduced by two nontrivial Poisson brackets between some geometrical as well as matter variables of the model. We recover the description in terms of commutative variables by introducing some variables transformations that depend on the NC parameter. Using those variables transformations, we rewrite the total NC Hamiltonian of the model in terms of commutative variables. From the resulting Hamiltonian, we obtain the dynamical equations for a generic perfect fluid. In order to solve these equations, we restrict our attention to a model where the perfect fluid is radiation. We solve, numerically, these equations and compare the NC solutions to the corresponding commutative ones. The comparison shows that the NC model may be considered as a possible candidate for describing the accelerated expansion of the universe. Finally, we obtain estimates for the NC parameter and compare the main results of the NC BI model coupled to radiation with the same NC BI model coupled to other perfect fluids. As our main result, we show that the solutions, after some time, produce an isotropic universe.

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arXiv2023

Tunneling probability for the birth of an universe with radiation in Horava-Lifshitz theory

In the present work, we study the birth of a homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann Lemaitre Robertson Walker (FLRW) cosmological model, considering Horava Lifshitz (HL) as the gravitational theory. The matter content of the model is a radiation perfect fluid. In order to study the birth of the universe in the present model, we consider the quantum cosmology mechanism of creation from nothing. In that mechanism, the universe appears after the wavefunction associated to that universe tunnels through a potential barrier. We started studying the classical model. We draw the phase portrait of the model and identify qualitatively all types of dynamical behaviors associated to it. Then, we write the Hamiltonian of the model and apply the Dirac quantization procedure to quantize a constrained theory. We find the appropriate Wheeler-DeWitt equation and solve it using the Wentzel Kramers Brillouin (WKB) approximation. Using the WKB solution, to the Wheeler DeWitt equation, we compute the tunneling probabilities for the birth of that universe (TPWKB). Since the WKB wavefunction depends on the radiation energy (E) and the free parameters coming from the HL theory (gc, gr, gs, gLambda), we compute the behavior of TPWKB as a function of E and all the HL parameters gc, gr, gs, gLambda.

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arXiv2023

Tunneling probability for the birth of universes with radiation, cosmological constant and an ad hoc potential

In this work we study the birth of Friedmann-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) models with zero ($k=0$) and negative ($k=-1$) curvatures of the spatial sections. The material content of the models is composed of a radiation perfect fluid and a positive cosmological constant. The models also have the presence of an ad hoc potential which origin is believed to be of geometrical nature. In order to describe the birth of these universes, we quantize them using quantum cosmology. Initially, we obtain the Wheeler-DeWitt equations and solve them using the WKB approximation. We notice that the presence of the ad hoc potential produces a barrier for any value of $k$. It means that we may describe the birth of the universe through a tunneling mechanism, for any curvature of the spatial sections, not only for the usual case $k=1$. We, explicitly, compute the tunneling probabilities for the birth of the different models of the universe and compare these tunneling probabilities.

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arXiv2021

An anisotropic Kantowski-Sachs universe with radiation, dust and a phantom fluid

In the present work, we study the dynamical evolution of an homogeneous and anisotropic KS cosmological model, considering general relativity as the gravitational theory, such that there are three different perfect fluids in the matter sector. They are radiation, dust and phantom fluid. Our main motivation is determining if the present model tends to an homogeneous and isotropic FRW model, during its evolution. Also, we want to establish how the parameters and initial conditions of the model, quantitatively, influence the isotropization of the present model. In order to simplify our task, we use the Misner parametrization of the KS metric. In terms of that parametrization the KS metric has two metric functions: the scale factor $a(t)$ and $β(t)$, which measures the spatial anisotropy of the model. We solve, numerically, the Einstein's equations of the model and find a solution where the universe starts to expand from a, small, initial size and continues to expand until it ends in a {\it Big Rip} singularity. We explicitly show that for the expansive solution, after same time, the universe becomes isotropic. Based on that result, we can speculate that the expansive solution may represent an initial, anisotropic, stage of our Universe, that later, due to the expansion, became isotropic.

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arXiv2021

Complete noncommutativity in a cosmological model with radiation

In order to try explaining the present accelerated expansion of the universe, we consider the most complete noncommutativity, of a certain type, in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model, coupled to a perfect fluid. We use the ADM formalism in order to write the gravitational Hamiltonian of the model and the Schutz's formalism in order to write the perfect fluid Hamiltonian. The noncommutativity is introduced by four nontrivial Poisson brackets between all geometrical as well as matter variables of the model. Each nontrivial Poisson bracket is associated to a noncommutative parameter. We recover the description in terms of commutative variables by introducing four variables transformations that depend on the noncommutative parameters. Using those variables transformations, we rewrite the total noncommutative Hamiltonian of the model in terms of commutative variables. From the resulting Hamiltonian, we obtain the scale factor dynamical equations for a generic perfect fluid. In order to solve these equations, we restrict our attention to a model where the perfect fluid is radiation. The solutions depend on six parameters: the four noncommutative parameters, a parameter associated with the fluid energy $C$, and the curvature parameter $k$. They also depend on the initial conditions of the model variables. We compare the noncommutative solutions to the corresponding commutative ones and determine how the former ones differ from the latter ones. The comparison shows that the noncommutative model is very useful for describing the accelerated expansion of the universe. We also obtain estimates for one of the noncommutative parameters.

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arXiv2020

The dynamics of the early universe in a model with radiation and a generalized Chaplygin gas

The early universe is modeled through the quantization of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model with positive curvature of the spatial hypersurfaces. In this model, the universe is filled by two fluids: radiation and a generalized Chaplygin gas. The quantization of this model is made following the prescriptions due to J. A. Wheeler and B. DeWitt. Using the Schutz's formalism, the time notion is recovered and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation transforms into a time dependent Schrödinger equation, which rules the dynamics of the early universe, under the action of an effective potential $V_{eff}$. That potential, depends on three parameters. Depending on the values of these parameters, $V_{eff}$ may have two different shapes. $V_{eff}(a)$ may have the shape of a barrier or the shape of a well followed by a barrier. We solve, numerically, the appropriate time dependent Schrödinger equation and obtain the time evolution of an initial wave function, for both cases. These wave functions satisfy suitable boundary conditions. For both shapes of $V_{eff}$, we compute the tunneling probability, which is a function of the mean kinetic energy associated to the radiation energy $E_m$ and of the three parameters of the generalized Chaplygin gas: $α$, $A$ and $B$. The tunneling probabilities, for both shapes of $V_{eff}$, indicates that the universe should nucleate with the highest possible values of $E_m$, $α$, $A$ and $B$. Finally, we study the classical universe evolution after the wavefunction has tunneled $V_{eff}$. The calculations show that the universe may emerge from the Planck era in an inflationary phase.

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arXiv2020

The effects of dark energy on the early universe with radiation and Bose-Einstein condensate

This work analyzes the effects of quantization on a Friedmann-Lema\^ıtre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model with positive curvature and material content composed of a Bose-Einstein condensate, a radioactive fluid and a cosmological constant playing the role of the dark energy of the universe. The quantization of the model was performed using the finite difference method in the Crank-Nicolson scheme: solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation are obtained, in the form of finite norm wave packets which are well defined in all space, even if the 3D-sphere is degenerate. The introduction of the Bose-Einstein condensate and cosmological constant preserves the existence of bounce solutions (for certain choices of parameters and initial conditions) with exits for inflation (de Sitter solutions). This occurs after the universe emerges from its quantum phase by a tunneling mechanism.

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arXiv2019

Quantum Cosmology with many fluids and the choice of cosmological time

In this work we propose the quantization of a cosmological model describing the primordial universe filled with five barotropic fluids, namely: radiation, dust, vacuum, cosmic strings and domain walls. We intend to identify which fluid is best suited to provide phenomenologically the temporal variable in accordance with the observable universe. Through the Galerkin spectral method and the finite difference method in the Crank-Nicolson scheme (vacuum case), the quantum cosmological solutions are obtained and compared. We, also, compare the quantum cosmological solutions with the corresponding classical ones. The vacuum case is especially interesting because it provides a tunneling transition mechanism from the quantum to the classical phase and the possibility of calculating quantum tunneling probabilities.

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arXiv2019

Noncommutative cosmological models induced by a symplectic formalism coupled to phantom fluids

In the present letter, we consider homogeneous and isotropic noncommutative cosmological models induced by a symplectic formalism coupled to phantom perfect fluids and a cosmological constant. After computing the field equations, we solve them to find the scalar factor dynamics. We restrict our attention to expansive solutions, that may represent the present expansion of our Universe. Those solutions generate {\it big rip} singularities. We study how the parameters, of those models, modify the time it takes to the scalar factor expands from zero till infinity, at the {\it big rip}.

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arXiv2019

Quantum cosmology of a Hořava-Lifshitz model coupled to radiation

In the present paper, we canonically quantize an homogeneous and isotropic Hořava-Lifshitz cosmological model, with constant positive spatial sections and coupled to radiation. We consider the projectable version of that gravitational theory without the detailed balance condition. We use the ADM formalism to write the gravitational Hamiltonian of the model and the Schutz variational formalism to write the perfect fluid Hamiltonian. We find the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the model, which depends on several parameters. We study the case in which parameter values are chosen so that the solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation are bounded. Initially, we solve it using the {\it Many Worlds} interpretation. Using wavepackets computed with the solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we obtain the scalar factor expected value $\left $. We show that this quantity oscillates between finite maximum and minimum values and never vanishes. Such result indicates that the model is free from singularities, at the quantum level. We reinforce this indication by showing that by subtracting one standard deviation unit from the expected value $\left $, the latter remains positive. Then, we use the {\it DeBroglie-Bohm} interpretation. Initially, we compute the Bohm's trajectories for the scale factor and show that they never vanish. Then, we show that each trajectory agrees with the corresponding $\left $. Finally, we compute the quantum potential, which helps understanding why the scale factor never vanishes.

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arXiv2018

Primordial Universe with radiation and Bose-Einstein condensate

In this work we derive a scenario {in which} the early universe consists of {radiation fluid} and Bose-Einstein condensate. The possibility of gravitational self-interaction due to an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate is analyzed. The classical behavior of the scale factor of the universe is determined by a parameter associated with the Bose-Einstein fluid with bouncing or Big Crunch solutions. After we proceed to compute the finite-norm wave packet solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. The behavior of the scale factor is studied by applying the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The quantum cosmological model is free from the singularities.

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arXiv2018

Hořava-Lifshitz cosmological models in noncommutative space-times

In this work, we will analyze a noncommutative (NC) version of the Friedmann-Robert-Walker cosmological models within the gravitational Hořava-Lifshitz theory. The matter content of the models is described by a perfect fluid and the constant curvature of the spatial sections may be positive, negative or zero. In order to obtain this theory, we will use the Faddeev-Jackiw symplectic formalism to introduce, naturally, space-time noncommutativity inside the equations that provide the dynamics of the theory. We will investigate, in details, the classical field equations of a particular version of the NC models. The equations will be modified, with respect to the commutative ones, by the introduction of a NC parameter. We will demonstrate that various NC models, with different types of matter and spatial constant curvatures, show several interesting and new results relative to the corresponding commutative ones. We will pay special attention to some cases, where the NC model predicts a scale factor accelerated expansion, which may describe the current state of our Universe.

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arXiv2017

DeBroglie-Bohm interpretation of a Hořava-Lifshitz quantum cosmology model

In the present letter, we consider the DeBroglie-Bohm interpretation of a Hořava-Lifshitz quantum cosmology model in the presence of a radiation perfect fluid. We compute the Bohm's trajectories for the scale factor and show that it never goes to zero. That result gives a strong indication that this model is free from singularities, at the quantum level. We also compute the quantum potential. That quantity helps understanding why the scale factor never vanishes.

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arXiv2017

Noncommutative cosmological model in the presence of a phantom fluid

We study noncommutative classical Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological models. The constant curvature of the spatial sections can be positive ($k=1$), negative ($k=-1$) or zero ($k=0$). The matter is represented by a perfect fluid with negative pressure, phantom fluid, which satisfies the equation of state $p =αρ$ , with $α< - 1$, where $p$ is the pressure and $ρ$ is the energy density. We use Schutz's formalism in order to write the perfect fluid Hamiltonian. The noncommutativity is introduced by nontrivial Poisson brackets between few variables of the models. In order to recover a description in terms of commutative variables, we introduce variables transformations that depend on a noncommutative parameter ($γ$). The main motivation for the introduction of the noncommutativity is trying to explain the present accelerated expansion of the universe. We obtain the dynamical equations for these models and solve them. The solutions have four constants: $γ$, a parameter associated with the fluid energy $C$, $k$, $α$ and the initial conditions of the models variables. For each value of $α$, we obtain different equations of motion. Then, we compare the evolution of the universe between the present noncommutative models and the corresponding commutative ones ($γ\to 0$). The results show that $γ$ is very useful for describing an accelerating universe. We estimate the value of $γ$, for the present conditions of the Universe. Then, using that value of $γ$, in one of the noncommutative cosmological models, we compute the amount of time this universe would take to reach the {\it big rip}.

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