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We propose a general inverse formula for extracting inflationary parameters from the observed power spectrum of cosmological perturbations. Under the general slow-roll scheme, which helps to probe the properties of inflation in a model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Minu Joy , Ewan D. Stewart , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Hyun-Chul Lee

In this work, we analytically calculate the spectra of primordial perturbations at the end of Type III hilltop inflation models under the slow-roll approximation. We examine the one-loop corrections of the spectra and find that those from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Chia-Min Lin , Da-Shin Lee

We apply the effective field theory approach to quasi-single field inflation, which contains an additional scalar field with Hubble scale mass other than inflaton. Based on the time-dependent spatial diffeomorphism, which is not broken by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Toshifumi Noumi , Masahide Yamaguchi , Daisuke Yokoyama

In low-energy effective string theory, $\alpha'$ corrections involve the coupling of the dilaton field to Gauss-Bonnet term. We assume that the dilaton potential is fine tuned so that the dilaton field may oscillate rapidly for a while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-16 Yong Cai , Yu-Tong Wang , Yun-Song Piao

Assuming that a scalar field controls the inflationary era, we examine the combined effects of string and $f(R)$ gravity corrections on the inflationary dynamics of canonical scalar field inflation, imposing the constraint that the speed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , F. P. Fronimos

Within General Relativity, a minimally coupled scalar field governed by a quadratic potential is able to produce an accelerated expansion of the universe provided its value and excursion are larger than the Planck scale. This is an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Jose D. Edelstein , Robert B. Mann , David Vázquez Rodríguez , Alejandro Vilar López

We compute the one-loop quantum corrections to the gravitational potentials of a spinning point particle in a de Sitter background, due to the vacuum polarisation induced by conformal fields in an effective field theory approach. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Markus B. Fröb , Enric Verdaguer

We generalize former findings regarding quantum-gravitational corrections arising from a canonical quantization of a perturbed FLRW universe during inflation by considering an initial state for the scalar and tensor perturbations that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-08 David Brizuela , Claus Kiefer , Manuel Kraemer , Salvador Robles-Pérez

Dynamics of long-wave isocurvature perturbations during an inflationary stage in multiple (multi-component) inflationary models is calculated analytically for the case where scalar fields producing this stage interact between themselves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-30 D. Polarski , A. A. Starobinsky

We suggest a scheme for considering the quantum correction of the gravitational constant. In the model, the gravitational constant originates from a coupling of the gravitational field with a scalar field. In this paper, we show that if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Yu-Jie Chen , Shi-Lin Li , Yu-Zhu Chen , Wen-Du Li , Wu-Sheng Dai

We evaluated the scattering amplitude of neutral scalar particles at one-loop order in the context of effective field theory of quantum gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant. Our study suggests that quantum gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-02 A. C. Lehum

In this paper, we explore a novel observational signature of gravitational corrections during slow-roll inflation. We study the coupling of the inflaton field to higher-curvature tensors in models with a minimal breaking of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Daniel Baumann , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel

In the first part of this paper, we outline the construction of an inflationary cosmology in the framework where inflation is described by a universally evolving scalar field, with the Lagrangian ${\cal L}_\phi=-{1/2}(\partial\phi)^2…

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We calculate IR divergent graviton one-loop corrections to scalar correlators in de Sitter space, and show that the leading IR contribution may be reproduced via simple semiclassical consistency relations. One can likewise use such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-27 Steven B. Giddings , Martin S. Sloth

The generic prediction for the perturbations generated during slow--roll, single--field inflation, as they appear in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), is a flat, close--to--Gaussian spectrum. We calculate the general solution for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gupta

We explore the correlations between correlation functions of the primordial curvature perturbation produced during inflation. We find that for general single field inflation, other than the source terms which depend on the model details,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-02 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Koenraad Schalm , Gary Shiu

Primordial magnetic fields are generated during inflation by considering actions that break the conformal invariance of the electromagnetic field. To break the conformal invariance, the electromagnetic fields are coupled either to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sagarika Tripathy , Debika Chowdhury , Rajeev Kumar Jain , L. Sriramkumar

We calculate the one-loop corrections in bispectrum of CMB scale perturbations induced from the small scale modes undergoing an intermediate phase of USR inflation in scenarios employed for PBHs formation. Using the formalism of effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Hassan Firouzjahi

We study the inflationary gravitational wave background induced by Abelian gauge fields generated by non-minimal kinetic and axial couplings to the inflaton. We show that, up to slow-roll corrections, for coupling functions that share the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Martin Teuscher , Ruth Durrer , Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau

We investigate the behaviour of tensor fluctuations in Loop Quantum Cosmology, focusing on a class of scaling solutions which admit a near scale-invariant scalar field power spectrum. We obtain the spectral index of the gravitational field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 E. J. Copeland , D. J. Mulryne , N. J. Nunes , M. Shaeri