Origins and Natures of Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Exploring the origins of inflation, dark matter, and dark energy is one of the most important problems in modern physics and cosmology. It is strongly expected that primordial gravitational waves will be detected in the near future, revealing the energy scale of inflation of the early universe.

Regarding the origin of dark matter, there are two main possibilities: The first is new particles in particle theory models beyond the standard model. The second is astrophysical objects. On the other hand, two representative approaches exist to investigate the properties of dark energy components leading to late-time cosmic acceleration. One is the introduction of unknown matter, called dark energy, with the negative pressure in general relativity. The other is the extension of gravity on large scales, known as geometrical dark energy.

The main subject of this Special Issue is to understand the origins and true nature of inflation, dark matter, and dark energy. We can consider not only phenomenological approaches but also more fundamental physics, such as higher-dimensional gravity theories, quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, physics in the early universe, quantum field theories and gauge field theories in curved spacetime, string theories, brane world models, and the holographic principle. It is our pleasure to invite submissions to this Special Issue on inflation, dark matter, dark energy, and related foundations of physics.

Dr. Kazuharu Bamba
Guest Editor

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• inflation
• dark matter
• dark energy
• alternative theory of gravity
• cosmology
• physics in the early universe
• cosmological perturbation theory
• cosmic microwave background radiation
• gravitational waves
• large-scale structure of the universe