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We consider Brans Dicke scalar vector tensor gravity to study an inflationary scenario of the accelerating expansion of the universe for which the anisotropy property occurs. We study both primordial inflation and late inflationary period…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Hossein Ghaffarnejad , Hoda Gholipour

In this paper, we have studied the stability of the cosmological models with dark energy and combination of matter fields and dark energy in an anisotropic space time. The pressure anisotropy along the spatial directions are derived and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 B. Mishra , Fakhereh Md. Esmaeili , Pratik P. Ray , S. K. Tripathy

We study the realization of cosmic inflation in bigravity theories. By analyzing the evolution of scalar, vector, and tensor perturbations in de Sitter-like spacetimes, we find strong stability constraints on the class of viable vacua…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-21 Vicente Atal , Luis E. Campusano , Gonzalo A. Palma

The evolution of two slow--rolling scalar fields with potentials of the form $V=V_0 \phi^{-\alpha}\exp(-\beta \phi^m)$ is studied. Considering different values of the parameters $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $m$, we derive several new inflationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. R. Ashcroft , C. van de Bruck , A. -C. Davis

Existence and stability analysis of the Kantowski-Sachs type universe in a higher derivative induced gravity theory is studied in details. Existence of one stable mode and one unstable mode is shown to be in favor of the inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 W. F. Kao

We derive generic equations for a vector field driving the evolution of flat homogeneous isotropic universe and give a comparison with a scalar filed dynamics in the cosmology. Two exact solutions are shown as examples, which can serve to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. V. Kiselev

A new model realisation of the vector curvaton paradigm is presented and analysed. The model consists of a single massive Abelian vector field, with a Maxwell type kinetic term. By assuming that the kinetic function and the mass of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-03 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Mindaugas Karciauskas , Jacques M. Wagstaff

We study the full linear perturbations of a homogeneous and isotropic spacetime in the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. The stability of the perturbations are analyzed in the Eddington regime. We find that, for positive $\kappa$, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-07 Ke Yang , Xiao-Long Du , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study the cosmology on the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker background in scalar-vector-tensor theories with a broken $U(1)$ gauge symmetry. For parity-invariant interactions arising in scalar-vector-tensor theories with second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-27 Lavinia Heisenberg , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa

The physics of the inflationary universe requires the study of the out of equilibrium evolution of quantum fields in curved spacetime. We present the evolution for both the geometry and the matter (described by the quantum inflaton field)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Boyanovsky , D. Cormier , H. J. de Vega , R. Holman , S. P. Kumar

In this paper we present a method for considering the stability of smooth vector fields on a smooth manifold which may not be compact. We show that these kind of stability which is called "connection stability" is equivalent to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Mohammadreza Molaei , Christian Corda

Evidence for the presence of extra fields during inflation may be found in the anisotropies of the scalar and tensor spectra across a vast range of scales. Indeed, beyond the single-field slow-roll paradigm, a long tensor mode can modulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We consider the transverse-traceless tensor perturbation of a spatial flat homogeneous and isotropic spacetime in Born-Infeld determinantal gravity, and investigate the evolution of the tensor mode for two solutions in the early universe.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-10 Ke Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang , Yu-Xiao Liu

We revisit the issue on signatures of pre-inflationary background anisotropy by considering the quantization of a massless and minimally coupled scalar field in an axially symmetric Kasner background, mimicking cosmological perturbations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-29 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Masato Minamitsuji

We continue the analysis of perturbations in vector inflation. The dominant theme of this paper is the long wavelength limit of perturbations in small fields inflation and the controversial issue of its linear stability. We explain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Alexey Golovnev

We present a detailed analysis for the classical stability of a four dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS$_4$) by decomposing the first-order perturbations of a spherical symmetric gravitational field into the so called tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Nayeri , Tuan Tran

We consider the effects of inhomogeneous initial conditions in both the scalar field profile and the extrinsic curvature on different inflationary models. In particular, we compare the robustness of small field inflation to that of large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-21 Katy Clough , Eugene A. Lim , Brandon S. DiNunno , Willy Fischler , Raphael Flauger , Sonia Paban

Quadratic scale-invariant gravity non minimally coupled to a scalar field provides a competitive model for inflation, characterized by the transition from an unstable to a stable fixed point, both characterized by constant scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-27 Simon Boudet , Massimiliano Rinaldi , Samuele Marco Silveravalle

We investigate tensor modes in inflationary scenarios from the point of view of Ashtekar variables and their generalizations labelled by Immirzi parameter \gamma, which we'll assume imaginary. By defining the classical perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 Laura Bethke , Joao Magueijo

We study the possibility that inflation is driven by a scalar field together with a vector field minimally coupled to gravity. By assuming an effective potential that incorporates both fields into the action, we explore two distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Ramon Herrera