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Universe, Volume 6, Issue 3

March 2020 - 12 articles

Cover Story: Quantum gravity effects have often been used to suggest new cosmological effects, in particular, for the Big Bang era. However, a reliable form of full quantum gravity remains uncertain, and existing proposals are hard to evaluate. “Critical Evaluation of Common Claims in Loop Quantum Cosmology” evaluates, in detail, a popular scenario according to which the Big Bang singularity may be replaced by the bounce of a collapsing universe into our expanding branch. It is found that several simplifying assumptions have, explicitly or implicitly, been made in the last decade, which happen to imply a smooth and non-singular bounce, but are in conflict with general physics principles. These principles include the necessary ingredients for a valid approximation of fundamental theory by an effective theory, as well as the condition of general covariance.View this paper.
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,622 Views
11 Pages

We consider the new horizon first law in f ( R ) theory. We derive the general formulas to computed the entropy and energy for static spherically symmetric black hole. For applications, some nontrivial solutions in some popular f ( R )...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,891 Views
12 Pages

Radio-Loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s), especially the extremely radio-loud ones, are widely accepted as the jetted versions of NLS1s. We explore the radio-loud fraction for NLS1s with recently released LoTSS DR1 at 150 MHz. The radio dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,298 Views
33 Pages

The Scale Invariant Vacuum (SIV) theory rests on the basic hypothesis that the macroscopic empty space is scale invariant. This hypothesis is applied in the context of the Integrable Weyl Geometry, where it leads to considerable simplifications in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,303 Views
20 Pages

Magnetized Particle Motion around Black Holes in Conformal Gravity: Can Magnetic Interaction Mimic Spin of Black Holes?

  • Kamoliddin Haydarov,
  • Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov,
  • Javlon Rayimbaev and
  • Bobomurat Ahmedov

Magnetized particle motion around black holes in conformal gravity immersed in asymptotically uniform magnetic field has been studied. We have also analyzed the behavior of magnetic fields near the horizon of the black hole in conformal gravity and s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
7,203 Views
73 Pages

Quantum Black Holes in the Sky

  • Jahed Abedi,
  • Niayesh Afshordi,
  • Naritaka Oshita and
  • Qingwen Wang

Black Holes are possibly the most enigmatic objects in our universe. From their detection in gravitational waves upon their mergers, to their snapshot eating at the centres of galaxies, black hole astrophysics has undergone an observational renaissan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,021 Views
23 Pages

Several anomalies observed in short-baseline neutrino experiments suggest the existence of new light sterile neutrino species. In this review, we describe the potential role of long-baseline experiments in the searches of sterile neutrino properties...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,825 Views
15 Pages

Various phase transitions could have taken place in the early universe, and may occur in the course of heavy-ion collisions and supernova explosions, in proto-neutron stars, in cold compact stars, and in the condensed matter at terrestrial conditions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,399 Views
18 Pages

In the 2-spinor formalism, the gravity can be dealt with curvature spinors with four spinor indices. Here we show a new effective method to express the components of curvature spinors in the rank-2 4 × 4 tensor representation for the gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,590 Views
9 Pages

We have considered the Iwasawa and Gauss decompositions for the Lie group SL(2,R). According to these decompositions, the Casimir operators of the group and the Hamiltonians with position-dependent mass were expressed. Then, the unbound state solutio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,397 Views
26 Pages

Deformed General Relativity and Quantum Black Holes Interior

  • Denis Arruga,
  • Jibril Ben Achour and
  • Karim Noui

Effective models of black holes interior have led to several proposals for regular black holes. In the so-called polymer models, based on effective deformations of the phase space of spherically symmetric general relativity in vacuum, one considers a...

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Universe - ISSN 2218-1997