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Based on the conventional metric tensor and driven by a nearly constant energy density, cosmic inflation, characterized by a remarkably accelerated expansion, was proposed as an early epoch in the Universe. The energy density is typically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Swapnil K. Singh , Saleh O. Allehabi , Azzah A. Alshehri , Mahmoud Nasar , Abdel Nasser Tawfik

We study loop corrections in the effective field theory of inflation with imaginary speed of sound, which has been shown to provide an effective description of multi-field inflationary models characterized by strongly non-geodesic motion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Yizhou Lu , Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Motivated by the prospect of testing inflation from precision cosmic microwave background observations, we present analytic results for scalar and tensor perturbations in single-field inflation models based on the application of uniform…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Gerard Jungman , Carmen Molina-Paris

Loop Quantum Gravity (L.Q.G.) is one of the two most promising tentative theory for a quantum description of gravity. When applied to the entire universe, the so-called Loop Quantum Cosmology (L.Q.C.) framework offers microscopical models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Grain

In this paper we study slow-roll inflation with holonomy corrections from loop quantum cosmology. Both tensor and scalar power spectra of primordial perturbations are computed up to the first order in slow-roll parameters and $V/\rho_{c}$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Jakub Mielczarek

In this paper we consider realistic model of inflation embedded in the framework of loop quantum cosmology. Phase of inflation is preceded here by the phase of a quantum bounce. We show how parameters of inflation depend on the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Jakub Mielczarek

We derive the primordial power spectra and spectral indexes of the density fluctuations and gravitational waves in the framework of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) with holonomy and inverse-volume corrections, by using the uniform asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-04 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Gerald Cleaver , Klaus Kirsten , Qin Sheng , Qiang Wu

We study quantum corrections to an inflationary model, which has the attractive feature of being classically scale-invariant. In this model, quadratic gravity plays along a scalar field in such a way that inflation begins near the unstable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Silvia Vicentini , Luciano Vanzo , Massimiliano Rinaldi

Anomaly-free perturbations of loop quantum cosmology with holonomy corrections reveal an $\Omega$ -deformed spacetime structure, $\Omega:=1-2\rho/\rho_c$, where $\Omega<0$ indicates a Euclidean-like space and $\Omega>0$ indicates a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 Long Chen , Jian-Yang Zhu

In loop quantum cosmology, the universe avoids a big bang singularity and undergoes an early and short super-inflation phase. During super-inflation, non-perturbative quantum corrections to the dynamics drive an inflaton field up its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 Shinji Tsujikawa , Parampreet Singh , Roy Maartens

Non-perturbative corrections from loop quantum cosmology (LQC) to the scalar matter sector is already known to imply inflation. We prove that the LQC modified scalar field generates exponential inflation in the small scale factor regime,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ghanashyam Date , Golam Mortuza Hossain

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 computation of the spectrum of primordial perturbations, generated by a scalar field during the super-inflationary phase of Loop Quantum Cosmology, is revisited. The calculation is performed for two different cases. The first considers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. J. Mulryne , N. J. Nunes

We study inflation for a quantum scalar electrodynamics model in curved space-time and for higher-derivative quantum gravity (QG) coupled with scalar electrodynamics. The corresponding renormalization-group (RG) improved potential is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Sergei Odintsov , Lorenzo Sebastiani

We study the tensor modes of linear metric perturbations within an effective framework of loop quantum cosmology. After a review of inverse-volume and holonomy corrections in the background equations of motion, we solve the linearized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-24 Gianluca Calcagni , Golam Mortuza Hossain

We compute the one- and two-loop corrected mode function of a massless minimally coupled scalar endowed with a quartic self-interaction in the locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe for a state which is released in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-07 V. K. Onemli

This thesis is centered on three main subjects within the theory of inflation and cosmological perturbations: loop corrections to the power spectrum of curvature fluctuations generated during inflation; evolution of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-13 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni

At the level of heuristic effective dynamics, we investigate the cosmological inflation with holonomy corrections of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) in the $k=0$ Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model with a single inflaton field subject to a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Dah-Wei Chiou , Kai Liu

We compute the primordial scalar, vector and tensor metric perturbations arising from quantum field inflation. Quantum field inflation takes into account the nonperturbative quantum dynamics of the inflaton consistently coupled to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. J. Cao

Loop quantum cosmology provides an efficient framework to study the evolution of the Universe beyond the classical Big Bang paradigm. Because of holonomy corrections, the singularity is replaced by a "bounce". The dynamics of the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Jakub Mielczarek , Thomas Cailleteau , Julien Grain , Aurelien Barrau