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Avoiding PBH overproduction in inflation model with modified dispersion relation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-10-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) data of nano-Hertz gravitational waves released in 2023 implies that if such gravitational waves comes from the scalar perturbation induction at the end of inflation, the accompanied primordial black holes (PBHs) will be over-produced, with the fraction exceed the upper bound of unity. This is recognized as the ``overproduction problem", which calls for nontrivial features in the early universe. In this paper, we try to check out whether a modified dispersion relation (MDR) of the primordial perturbations can be helpful for solving the problem. From the constraint on PTA data, we obtain a posterior distribution of the parameters of primordial perturbation, and find that the MDR model, where the k4k^4 term becomes important at later time, can give rise to a broken-power-law (BPL) power spectrum which can alleviate the overproduction problem to nearly 2σ2\sigma level. However, to improve furtherly into 1σ1\sigma still needs small negative non-Gaussianity, e.g. fnl1f_{\rm nl}\simeq -1. The mass distribution of the PBHs generated is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2510.22218,
  title  = {Avoiding PBH overproduction in inflation model with modified dispersion relation},
  author = {Chengrui Yang and Weixin Cai and Taotao Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.22218},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures

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