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We consider the non-commutative inflation model of [3] in which it is the unconventional dispersion relation for regular radiation which drives the accelerated expansion of space. In this model, we study the evolution of linear cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Seoktae Koh , Robert H. Brandenberger

The conventional slow-roll approximation is broken in the so-called "ultra slow-roll" models of inflation, for which the inflaton potential is exactly (or extremely) flat. The interesting nature of (canonical) ultra slow-roll inflation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Shin'ichi Hirano , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Shuichiro Yokoyama

I show that cosmological perturbation spectra produced from quantum fluctuations in massless or self-interacting scalar fields during an inflationary era remain invariant under a two parameter family of transformations of the homogeneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 David Wands

In the early Universe matter can be described as a conformal invariant ultra-relativistic perfect fluid, which does not contribute, on classical level, to the evolution of the isotropic and homogeneous metric. If we suppose that there is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Fabris , A. M. Pelinson , I. L. Shapiro

We investigate two classes of inflationary models, which lead to a stiff period after inflation that boosts the signal of primordial gravitational waves (GWs). In both families of models studied, we consider an oscillating scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Chao Chen , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Cem Eröncel , Anish Ghoshal

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…

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We consider scalar perturbations of energy--density for a class of cosmological models where an early phase of accelerated expansion evolves, without any fine--tuning for graceful exit, towards the standard Friedman eras of observed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase , G. Scarpetta

We consider a massless, minimally coupled scalar with a quartic self-interaction which is released in Bunch-Davies vacuum in locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe. It was shown, in this system, that quantum effects can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. O. Kahya , V. K. Onemli

The spectrum of cosmological perturbations in the context of the one-bubble open inflation model is discussed, taking into account fluctuations of the metric. We find that, quite generically,thin wall single field models have no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Jaume Garriga , Xavier Montes , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

In a class of non-singular cosmologies derived from higher-order corrections to the low-energy bosonic string action, we derive evolution equations for the most general cosmological scalar, vector and tensor perturbations. In the large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Cyril Cartier , Jai-chan Hwang , Edmund J. Copeland

We present a technique, {\em the uniform asymptotic approximation}, to construct accurate analytical solutions of the linear perturbations of inflation after quantum effects of the early universe are taken into account, for which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-19 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Gerald Cleaver , Klaus Kirsten , Qin Sheng

The recent detection of the primordial gravitational waves from the BICEP2 observation seems to be in tension with the upper bound on the amplitude of tensor perturbations from the PLANCK data. We consider a phenomenological model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 Hassan Firouzjahi , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo

The physics during the inflationary stage of the universe is of quantum nature involving extremely high energy densities. Moreover, it is out of equilibrium on a fastly expanding dynamical geometry. We complement here the 1999 Chalonge…

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A formula for the power spectrum of curvature perturbations having any initial conditions in inflation is obtained. Based on the physical conditions before inflation, the possibility exists that the initial state of scalar perturbations is…

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We consider the effects of entanglement in the initial quantum state of scalar and tensor fluctuations during inflation. We allow the gauge-invariant scalar and tensor fluctuations to be entangled in the initial state and compute…

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We show how observations of the perturbation spectra produced during inflation may be used to constrain the parameters of general scalar-tensor theories of gravity, which include both an inflaton and dilaton field. An interesting feature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Juan Garcia-Bellido , David Wands

We show that in the simplest theories of spontaneous symmetry breaking one can have a stage of a fast-roll inflation. In this regime the standard slow-roll condition |m^2| << H^2 is violated. Nevertheless, this stage can be rather long if…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrei Linde

Recently it has become clear that the resonant amplification of quantum field fluctuations at preheating must be accompanied by resonant amplification of scalar metric perturbations, since the two are united by Einstein's equations.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce A. Bassett , Fabrizio Tamburini , David I. Kaiser , Roy Maartens

For the original hybrid inflation model, we calculate the power spectrum of curvature perturbations generated during the waterfall, taking into account the contribution of entropic modes. We study the regime where the potential is very…

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