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In this paper, we investigate the evolution of the early universe within an emergent fractional cosmological framework. The underlying formulation is conceptually rooted in generalized measure constructions, closely related to fractal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 S. M. M. Rasouli

We study an inflation model with a flat scalar potential supported by observations and find that slow-roll inflation can emerge after a quasi-cyclic phase of the Universe, where it undergoes repeated expansions and contractions for a finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Hiroki Matsui , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Fuminobu Takahashi , Takahiro Terada

We propose a large class of nonsingular cosmologies of arbitrary spatial curvature whose cosmic history is determined by a primeval dynamical $\Lambda (t)$-term. For all values of the curvature, the models evolve between two extreme de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 J. A. S. Lima , E. L. D. Perico , G. J. M. Zilioti

We consider the description of cosmological dynamics from the onset of inflation by a perfect fluid whose parameters must be consistent with the strength of the enhanced quantum loop effects that can arise during inflation. The source of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

We study the ultra slow roll model in the context of stochastic inflation. Using stochastic $\delta N$ formalism, we calculate the mean number of $e$-folds, the power spectrum, the bispectrum and the stochastic corrections into these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Hassan Firouzjahi , Amin Nassiri-Rad , Mahdiyar Noorbala

Higher-order alpha'-corrections are a generic feature of type IIB string compactifications. In KKLT-like models of moduli stabilization they provide a mechanism of breaking the no-scale structure of the volume modulus. We present a model of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Westphal

In the standard picture, the inflationary universe is in a supercooled state which ends with a short time, large scale reheating period, after which the universe goes into a radiation dominated stage. An alternative is proposed here in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Arjun Berera

We propose a non-oscillatory no-scale supergravity model of inflation (NO-NO inflation) in which the inflaton does not oscillate at the end of the inflationary era. Instead, the Universe is then dominated by the inflaton kinetic energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 John Ellis , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

We study the renormalized energy-momentum tensor (EMT) of the inflaton fluctuations in rigid space-times during the slow-rollover regime for chaotic inflation with a mass term. We use dimensional regularization with adiabatic subtraction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Finelli , G. Marozzi , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

The quantum behavior of noncommutative eternal inflation is quite different from the usual knowledge. Unlike the usual eternal inflation, the quantum fluctuation of noncommutative eternal inflation is suppressed by the Hubble parameter. Due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi-Fu Cai , Yi Wang

In this paper we explore the relationship between the existence of eternal inflation and the initial conditions leading to inflation. We demonstrate that past and future completion of inflation is related, in that past-incomplete inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-20 Laura Mersini-Houghton

The quantum gravitational scale of inflation is calculated by finding a sharp probability peak in the distribution function of chaotic inflationary cosmologies driven by a scalar field with large negative constant $\xi$ of nonminimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

The present work deals with a cosmological model having particle creation mechanism in the framework of irreversible thermodynamics. In the second order non-equilibrium thermodynamical prescription, the particle creation rate is treated as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-01 Subenoy Chakraborty , Supriya Pan , Subhajit Saha

We show that the inflaton condensate associated with a global symmetry can fragment into quasi stable Q balls after the end of inflation, provided the inflaton oscillations give rise to an effective equation of state with negative pressure.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Anupam Mazumdar

We investigate the rich nonlinear dynamics during the end of hilltop inflation by numerically solving the coupled Klein-Gordon-Friedmann equations in a expanding universe. In particular, we search for coherent, nonperturbative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-14 Marcelo Gleiser , Noah Graham

We study the problem of initial conditions for slow-roll inflation along a plateau-like scalar potential within the framework of fluctuation-dissipation dynamics. We consider, in particular, that inflation was preceded by a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-09 Mar Bastero-Gil , Arjun Berera , Robert Brandenberger , Ian G. Moss , Rudnei O. Ramos , Joao G. Rosa

We derive consistency conditions for sustained slow roll and rapid turn inflation in two-field cosmological models with oriented scalar field space, which imply that inflationary models with field-space trajectories of this type are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-18 Lilia Anguelova , Calin Iuliu Lazaroiu

Whereas preheating after chaotic and hybrid inflation models has been abundantly studied in the literature, preheating in small field inflation models, where the curvature of the inflaton potential is negative during inflation, remains less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Philippe Brax , Jean-Francois Dufaux , Sophie Mariadassou

We consider the impact of quantum diffusion on inflationary dynamics during an ultra-slow-roll phase, which can be of particular significance for the formation of primordial black holes. We show, by means of a fully analytical approach,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Guillermo Ballesteros , Julián Rey , Marco Taoso , Alfredo Urbano

The paper deals with the mechanism of particle creation in the framework of irreversible thermodynamics. The second order non-equilibrium thermodynamical prescription of Israel and Stewart has been presented with particle creation rate,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-04 Subenoy Chakraborty , Subhajit Saha