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The scenario of constant-roll inflation is studied where the inflaton is a scalar field with modified kinetic term, known as non-canonical scalar field. This modification leads to some changes in the slow-roll parameters, and also by taking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Abolhassan Mohammadi , Khaled Saaidi , Haidar Sheikhahmadi

In this study, we precisely evaluated the feasibility of the chaotic inflation model within a non-canonical kinetic framework. By applying the slow-roll approximation and imposing constraints on the equilateral non-Gaussianity $f_{\rm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Wei Yang , Chen-Hao Wu , Ya-Peng Hu

We consider how the swampland criteria might be applied to models in which scalar fields have nontrivial kinetic terms, particularly in the context of $P(\phi,X)$ theories, popularly used in approaches to inflation, to its alternatives, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-08 Adam R. Solomon , Mark Trodden

We discuss implications of the latest BICEP/Keck data release for inflationary models, with particular emphasis on scalar fields with non-canonical Lagrangians of the type ${\cal L} = X^\alpha - V(\phi)$. The observational upper bound on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Swagat S. Mishra , Varun Sahni

We consider the non-supersymmetric models of chaotic (driven by a quadratic potential) and hybrid inflation, taking into account the minimal possible radiative corrections to the inflationary potential. We show that two simple coupling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 C. Pallis

It is well known that a canonical scalar field with an exponential potential can drive power law inflation (PLI). However, the tensor-to-scalar ratio in such models turns out to be larger than the stringent limit set by recent Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-01 Sanil Unnikrishnan , Varun Sahni

We study inflationary scenarios driven by a scalar field in the presence of a non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature. We show that the Friedmann equation can be significantly modified when the energy density during inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Cláudio Gomes , João G. Rosa , Orfeu Bertolami

We explore the inflationary phase of a scalar field with a kinetic term non-minimally coupled to gravity. We find that one of the slow-roll conditions is naturally consequence of the equation of motion of the scalar field. Thus, slow-roll…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 Amir Ghalee

In this article we analyze the reconstruction of inflation in the framework of a non-canonical theory. In this sense, we study the viability of reconstructing the background variables assuming a non-lineal kinetic term given by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Ramon Herrera , Carlos Rios

We study the intermediate inflation in a non-canonical scalar field framework with a power-like Lagrangian. We show that in contrast with the standard canonical intermediate inflation, our non-canonical model is compatible with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-24 K. Rezazadeh , K. Karami , P. Karimi

We investigate the cosmic inflation within a class of the scalar-tensor model with the scalar-dependent non-minimal kinetic couplings. The inflationary dynamical potential will be applied. Using the slow-roll approximation, we compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Feyzollah Younesizadeh , Davoud Kamani

In this work we shall study $k$-inflation theories with non-minimal coupling of the scalar field to gravity, in the presence of only a higher order kinetic term of the form $\sim \mathrm{const}\times X^{\mu}$, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-05 V. K. Oikonomou

Effect of non-canonical scalar fields on the CMB imprints of the anisotropic inflation will be discussed in details in this paper. In particular, we are able to obtain the general formalism of the angular power spectra in the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-07 Tuan Q. Do , W. F. Kao , Ing-Chen Lin

I describe a general approach to characterizing cosmological inflation outside the standard slow-roll approximation, based on the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of scalar field dynamics. The basic idea is to view the equation of state of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 William H. Kinney

We present a unified framework that simultaneously addresses the dynamics of early-time cosmic inflation and late-time cosmic acceleration within the context of a single scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity. By employing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-27 Seong Chan Park

We look for potential observational degeneracies between canonical and non-canonical models of inflation of a single field $\phi$. Non-canonical inflationary models are characterized by higher than linear powers of the standard kinetic term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Rhiannon Gwyn , Markus Rummel , Alexander Westphal

In this paper, inflationary cosmology is reviewed, paying particular attention to its observational signatures associated with large-scale density perturbations generated from quantum fluctuations. In the most general scalar-tensor theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-13 Shinji Tsujikawa

We propose an inflationary scenario inspired by a recent formulation, in terms of coherent states, of non-commutative quantum field theory. We consider the semiclassical Einstein equations, and we exploit the ultraviolet finiteness of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-28 Massimiliano Rinaldi

We propose a new broad class of multi-field non-canonical inflationary models as an extension of multi-field conformal cosmological attractors. This also generalizes the recently discovered class of non-canonical conformal attractors for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Tony Pinhero , Supratik Pal

We consider inflation in a universe with a positive cosmological constant and a nonminimally coupled scalar field, in which the field couples both quadratically and quartically to the Ricci scalar. When considered in the Einstein frame and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-21 Dražen Glavan , Anja Marunović , Tomislav Prokopec