In this paper, we present an analysis of a chiral cosmological scenario from the perspective of K-essence formalism. In this setup, several scalar fields interact within the kinetic and potential sectors. However, we only consider a flat Friedmann–Robertson–Lamaître–Walker universe coupled minimally to two quintom fields: one quintessence and one phantom. We examine a classical cosmological framework, where analytical solutions are obtained. Indeed, we present an explanation of the “big-bang” singularity by means of a “big-bounce”. Moreover, having a barotropic fluid description and for a particular set of parameters, the phantom line is in fact crossed. Additionally, for the quantum counterpart, the Wheeler–DeWitt equation is analytically solved for various instances, where the factor-ordering problem has been taken into account (measured by the factor Q). Hence, this approach allows us to compute the probability density of the previous two classical subcases. It turns out that its behavior is in effect damped as the scale factor and the scalar fields evolve. It also tends towards the phantom sector when the factor ordering constant $\mathrm{Q}\ll 0$.

We construct a noncommutative extension of the Loop Quantum Cosmology effective scheme for the flat FLRW model with a free scalar field via a theta deformation. Firstly, a deformation is implemented in the configuration sector, among the holonomy variable and the matter degree of freedom. We show that this type of noncommutativity retains, to some degree, key features of the Loop Quantum Cosmology paradigm for a free field. Secondly, a deformation is implemented in the momentum sector, among the momentum associated with the holonomy variable and the momentum associated with the matter field. We show that in this latter case the scalar field energy density is the same as the one in standard Loop Quantum Cosmology.

We construct and study a simple noncommutative scheme (theta-deformation) for the effective loop quantum cosmology of the flat Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker model in the presence of a homogeneous scalar field $\varphi$ with a potential $\mathcal{V}(\varphi )=\frac{1}{2}{m}^2{\varphi }^2$. We first conduct a simple analysis from the corresponding Hamilton equations of motion considering a generic term $\mathcal{V}(\varphi )$. It is observed that the characteristic big bounce of loop quantum cosmology is preserved under such noncommutative extension. When specializing to the quadratic case, numerical solutions to the corresponding Hamilton equations exhibiting an early inflationary epoch with a sufficiently large number of $e$-foldings are found. It is concluded that, in this noncommutative setup, solutions exist which are in the overall compatible with the early universe predicted by standard (effective) Loop Quantum Cosmology (i.e., a bouncing and inflationary early universe). The issue of the genericness of a sufficiently long inflationary period on the space of solutions in this noncommutative construct remains to be addressed.

Two novel and direct quantum mechanical representations of the Black-Scholes model are constructed based on the (Wick-rotated) quantization of two specific mechanical systems. The quantum setup is achieved by means of the associated Laplace-Beltrami operator (one for each model), and not by merely applying the naive rule p ↦ − iℏ∂ _q . Additionally, the clear identification of the geometric content of the underlying classical framework is exploited in order to arrive at a noncommutative quantum mechanics generalization of the Black-Scholes model. We also consider a system consisting of two degrees of freedom whose (Wick-rotated) quantization leads to a model which can be seen as related to the Merton-Garman family. This model is also generalized via noncommutative quantum mechanics.