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In cosmic inflation, non-linearities of the curvature perturbation can induce backreaction to the background. To obtain observational predictions at non-linear order on the correct background, one has to redefine the background or introduce…

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In the early universe it is important to take into account quantum effect of the gravity to explain the feature of the inflation. In this paper, we consider the M-theory effective action which consists of 11 dimensional supergravity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-20 Kazuho Hiraga , Yoshifumi Hyakutake

We study both the background evolution and cosmological perturbations of anisotropic inflationary models supported by coupled scalar and vector fields. The models we study preserve the U(1) gauge symmetry associated with the vector field,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-29 Burak Himmetoglu

The inflationary 1-loop tensor power spectrum from an excited spectator scalar field is calculated. Recent studies on primordial black holes suggest that the inflationary curvature perturbation may be huge on small scales. An enhanced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-03 Atsuhisa Ota , Misao Sasaki , Yi Wang

Cosmological local observables are at best statistically determined by the fundamental theory describing inflation. When the scalar inflaton is coupled uniformly to a collection of subdominant massless gauge vectors, rotational invariance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 Mikjel Thorsrud , David F. Mota , Federico R. Urban

In a recent paper [17], we studied the evolution of the background geometry and scalar perturbations in an inflationary, spatially closed Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model having constant positive spatial curvature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Béatrice Bonga , Brajesh Gupt , Nelson Yokomizo

The primordial spectrum of cosmological tensor perturbations is considered as a possible probe of quantum gravity effects. Together with string theory, loop quantum gravity is one of the most promising frameworks to study quantum effects in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-09 J. Grain , A. Barrau

Inhomogeneous cosmological perturbation equations are derived in loop quantum gravity, taking into account corrections in particular in gravitational parts. This provides a framework for calculating the evolution of modes in structure…

The era of precision cosmology has allowed us to accurately determine many important cosmological parameters, in particular via the CMB. Confronting Loop Quantum Cosmology with these observations provides us with a powerful test of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-06 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

We provide an exhaustive numerical exploration of the predictions of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) with a post-bounce phase of inflation for the primordial power spectrum of scalar and tensor perturbations. We extend previous analysis by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-30 Ivan Agullo , Noah A. Morris

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

Loop quantum cosmology provides a nice solution of avoiding the big bang singularity through a big bounce mechanism in the high energy region. In loop quantum cosmology an inflationary universe is emergent after the big bounce, no matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xin Zhang , Yi Ling

The inflationary potential and its derivatives determine the spectrum of scalar and tensor metric perturbations that arise from quantum fluctuations during inflation. The CBR anisotropy offers a promising means of determining the spectra of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-18 Michael Turner , Martin White

The particle production process is reviewed, through which cosmic inflation can produce a scale invariant superhorizon spectrum of perturbations of suitable fields starting from their quantum fluctuations. Afterwards, in the context of the…

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Inflation solves several cosmological problems at the classical and quantum level, with a strong agreement between the theoretical predictions of well-motivated inflationary models and observations. In this work, we study the corrections…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Anirudh Gundhi , José Luis Gaona-Reyes , Matteo Carlesso , Angelo Bassi

In this paper, the scalar and tensor perturbations in the closed algebra approach of loop quantum cosmology are studied. Instead of the distant past in the contracting phase, we choose the moment at which the initial conditions are imposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 Bao-Fei Li , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Klaus Kirsten , Gerald Cleaver , Qin Sheng

We investigate the dynamics of super-inflation in two versions of Loop Quantum Cosmology, one in which the Friedmann equation is modified by the presence of inverse volume corrections, and one in which quadratic corrections are important.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. J. Copeland , D. J. Mulryne , N. J. Nunes , M. Shaeri

In the approach of the effective field theory of modified gravity, we derive the second-order action and the equation of motion for tensor perturbations on the flat isotropic cosmological background. This analysis accommodates a wide range…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

The corrections to the cosmological models induced by non-minimal coupling between scalar field and torsion are considered. To determine these corrections in explicit form, the power-law parametrization of these corrections are proposed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 I. V. Fomin , S. V. Chervon , L. K. Duchaniya , B. Mishra

We present a detailed study of inflationary solutions in M-theory with higher order quantum corrections. We first exhaust all exact and asymptotic solutions of exponential and power-law expansions in this theory with quartic curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenta Akune , Kei-ichi Maeda , Nobuyoshi Ohta