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Gravitationally coupled scalar fields $\phi $, distinguished by the choice of an effective self-interaction potential $V(\phi )$, simulating a temporarily non-vanishing cosmological term, can generate both inflation and late time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-27 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , M. K. Mak

We study multi-field inflation models that contain a non-trivial field-space metric and a non-minimal coupling between the gravity and inflaton sectors. In such models it is known that even in the absence of explicit interaction terms the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-24 Yuki Watanabe , Jonathan White

Picking out DBI scalar field as inflation, the slow-rolling inflationary scenario is studied by attributing an exponential time function to scale factor; known as intermediate inflation. The perturbation parameters of the model are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-15 N. Nazavari , A. Mohammadi , Z. Ossoulian , Kh. Saaidi

We study a scale-invariant model of quadratic gravity with a non-minimally coupled scalar field. We focus on cosmological solutions and find that scale invariance is spontaneously broken and a mass scale naturally emerges. Before the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-13 Massimiliano Rinaldi , Luciano Vanzo

We present the first quantum field theory model of inflation that is renormalizable in the matter sector, with a super-Hubble inflaton mass and sub-Planckian field excursions, which is thus technically natural and consistent with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Mar Bastero-Gil , Arjun Berera , Rudnei O. Ramos , João G. Rosa

The shift-symmetric coupling of a pseudo-scalar particle driving inflation to gauge fields provides a unique way of probing cosmic inflation. We show for an SU(2) gauge group how a classical isotropic background gauge field develops from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-24 Valerie Domcke , Ben Mares , Francesco Muia , Mauro Pieroni

In axion gauge field inflation an axion-like particle driving cosmic inflation is coupled to the Chern-Simons density of an Abelian or non-Abelian gauge group. In the case of a non-Abelian gauge group, this can lead to the formation of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 Valerie Domcke , Stefan Sandner

In the framework of the Connes-Lott model based on noncommutative geometry, the basic features of a gauge theory in the presence of gravity are reviewed, in order to show the possible physical relevance of this scheme for inflationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Lizzi , G. Mangano , G. Miele , G. Sparano

In this work we study the GW170817-compatible Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theories during the reheating and the end of inflationary era. Given the scalar field potential $V(\phi)$ which can have some intrinsic importance for the theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 V. K. Oikonomou , Pyotr Tsyba , Olga Razina

We study the dynamics of the standard model Higgs field in the inflationary cosmology. Since metastability of our vacuum is indicated by the current experimental data of the Higgs boson and top quark, inflation models with a large Hubble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Kohei Kamada

The Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) approach for exploring inflationary trajectories is employed in the generation of generalised inflationary non-Gaussian signals arising from single field inflation. Scale dependent solutions for $f_{NL}$ are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 Jonathan S. Horner , Carlo R. Contaldi

We propose a new inflation model in which a gauge singlet inflaton turns into the Higgs condensate after inflation. The inflationary path is characterized by a moduli space of supersymmetric vacua spanned by the inflaton and Higgs field.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-13 Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi

In this note, we will introduce an action for warm inflation model with direct coupling between the pseudoscalar field and mass-less $SU(2)$ gauge fields. The potential of inflaton is protected against the thermal corrections in a thermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Vahid. Kamali

We revisit an extension of the well-known formalism for gauge-invariant scalar metric fluctuations, to study the spectrums for both, the inflaton and gauge invariant (scalar) metric fluctuations in the framework of a single field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Mariano Anabitarte , Mauricio Bellini

If the inflaton is a heavy scalar field, it may equilibrate slower than some other degrees of freedom, e.g. non-Abelian gauge bosons. In this case, perturbations in the inflaton field and in a thermal plasma coexist from a given moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-18 M. Laine , S. Procacci , A. Rogelj

We explore the possibility of describing our universe with a singularity--free, closed, spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmological model, using only general relativity and a suitable equation of state which produces an inflationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-01 S. S. Bayin , F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

We calculate particle production during inflation and in the early stages of reheating after inflation in models with a charged scalar field coupled to Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields. A detailed analysis of the power spectra of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-20 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Mustafa A. Amin

We study the second-order gauge-invariant adiabatic and isocurvature perturbations in terms of the scalar fields present during inflation, along with the related fully non-linear space gradient of these quantities. We discuss the relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-01 Eleftheria Tzavara , Bartjan van Tent

We study a solution to the Einstein field equations on an eight-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold (a spacetime of four space dimensions and four time dimensions) that exhibits inflation of three of the four space dimensions and…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-15 Patrick Lee Nash

In this paper, we propose a new method to calculate the mode functions in the noncommutative power-law inflation model. In this model, all the modes created when the stringy space-time uncertainty relation is satisfied are generated inside…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-02 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li , Dao-Jun Liu