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In quasi-single field inflation models, massive isocurvature modes, that are coupled to the inflaton and have mass of order the Hubble parameter, can have nontrivial impacts on density perturbations, especially non-Gaussianities. We study a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-07 Xingang Chen , Yi Wang

We investigate a single field model in the context of the constant-roll inflation in which inflaton moves down to the minimum point of the potential with a constant rate of rolling. We use a quintessential inflationary model obtained by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 Mehdi Shokri , Jafar Sadeghi , Saeed Noori Gashti

In this paper, I present an analytic solution to the equation of motion of the inflaton field in a model of rapid roll inflation with a quartic potential by assuming that the Hubble parameter is a constant during inflation. The result is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-23 Chia-Min Lin

We analyze and compare the multi-field dynamics during inflation and preheating in symmetric and asymmetric models of $\alpha$-attractors, characterized by a hyperbolic field-space manifold. We show that the generalized (asymmetric) E- and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-04 Oksana Iarygina , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis , Dong-Gang Wang , Ana Achúcarro

Inflation is often described through the dynamics of a scalar field, slow-rolling in a suitable potential. Ultimately, this inflaton must be identified as the expectation value of a quantum field, evolving in a quantum effective potential.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-11 Jens O. Andersen , Magdalena Eriksson , Anders Tranberg

We study an inflationary scenario where thermal inflation is followed by fast-roll inflation. This is a rather generic possibility based on the effective potentials of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the context of particle physics models.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jinn-Ouk Gong

We examine the dynamics of inflation driven by multiple, interacting scalar fields and derive a multi field version of the Hubble slow roll expansion. We show that the properties of this expansion naturally generalize those of the single…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Richard Easther , John T Giblin

We investigate the cosmological inflation for the Einstein-Hilbert action plus the Higgs potential function and the Gauss-Bonnet term coupled with the Higgs scalar field through a dilaton-like coupling. Then, using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Zahra Ahghari , Mehrdad Farhoudi

A particular extension of Einstein's General Relativity up to and including quartic terms in the curvature tensor is minimal in the sense that it has a unique maximally symmetric vacuum and only a massless spin-2 excitation in its spectrum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-12 Kerim Demirel , Bayram Tekin

We consider supersymmetric inflation with the hybrid-type potential. In the absence of the symmetry that forbids Hubble-induced mass terms, the inflaton mass will be as large as the Hubble scale during inflation. We consider gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-15 Tomohiro Matsuda

We consider a Lorentz-violating theory of inflation consisting of Einstein-aether theory with a scalar inflaton coupled bilinearly to the expansion of the aether. We determine the conditions for linearized stability, positive energy, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-17 William Donnelly , Ted Jacobson

We discuss a new scenario for early cosmology, when inflationary de Sitter phase dynamically emergent. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a (conjectured) strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

We confront quasi-exponential models of inflation with WMAP seven years dataset using Hamilton Jacobi formalism. With a phenomenological Hubble parameter, representing quasi exponential inflation, we develop the formalism and subject the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 Barun Kumar Pal , Supratik Pal , B. Basu

Extensions of the Standard Model and general relativity featuring a UV fixed point can leave observable implications at accessible energies. Although mass parameters such as the Planck scale can appear through dimensional transmutation, all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-13 Alberto Salvio

We investigate warm inflation in the framework of $f(Q)$ gravity within a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime. Unlike cold inflation, where the inflaton evolves in isolation, warm inflation features continuous interaction between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Tuhina Ghorui , Prabir Rudra , Farook Rahaman , Behnam Pourhassan

From the assumption that the slow roll parameter $\epsilon$ has a Lorentzian form as a function of the e-folds number $N$, a successful model of a quintessential inflation is obtained, as succinctly studied in \cite{Benisty:2020xqm}. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman

Vacuum energy, a prediction of quantum field theory, manifests itself as a cosmological constant in general relativity. In this Letter, we propose a novel inflationary scenario driven by a bare cosmological constant $\Lambda$, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Chengsheng Mu , Shuxun Tian , Shuo Cao , Zong-Hong Zhu

We investigate a compelling model of quintessential inflation in the context of $\alpha$-attractors, which naturally result in a scalar potential featuring two flat regions, the inflationary plateau and the quintessential tail. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Leonora Donaldson Wood , Charlotte Owen

We present the first quantum field theory model of inflation that is renormalizable in the matter sector, with a super-Hubble inflaton mass and sub-Planckian field excursions, which is thus technically natural and consistent with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Mar Bastero-Gil , Arjun Berera , Rudnei O. Ramos , João G. Rosa

We investigate the observational viability of a class of $\alpha$-attractors inflationary models in light of the most recent Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large-Scale Structure (LSS) data. By considering a double-well potential we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-04 J. G. Rodrigues , S. Santos da Costa , J. S. Alcaniz