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We consider a quantum deformation of the wave equation on a cosmological background as a toy-model for possible trans-Planckian effects. We compute the power spectrum of scalar and tensor fluctuations for power-law inflation, and find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Sera Cremonini

We extend the theory of cosmological perturbations to the case when the ``matter'' Lagrangian is an arbitrary function of the scalar field and its first derivatives. In particular, this extension provides a unified description of known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Jaume Garriga , V. F. Mukhanov

We present a new formulation for the evaluation of the primordial spectrum of curvature perturbations generated during inflation, using the fact that the Wronskian of the scalar field perturbation equation is constant. In the literature,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Takahiro Tanaka , Misao Sasaki , Ewan D. Stewart

We identify examples of single field inflationary trajectories beyond the slow-roll regime which improve the fit to Planck 2018 data compared to baseline $\Lambda$CDM model with power law form of primordial spectrum and at the same time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Akhil Antony , Fabio Finelli , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo

We investigate the primordial power spectra (PPS) of scalar and tensor perturbations, derived through the slow-roll approximation. By solving the Mukhanov-Sasaki equation and the tensor perturbation equation with Green's function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Mario Ballardini , Alessandro Davoli , Salvatore Samuele Sirletti

In this companion to our letter (arXiv:2208.10514), we elaborate the full details of the predicted corrections to the primordial scalar and tensor power spectra that arise from quantum gravity-motivated, natural, covariant ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Aidan Chatwin-Davies , Achim Kempf , Petar Simidzija

I show that a classical scalar potential with $ V''/V \sim 1 $ can be sufficiently flattened by quantum corrections to give rise to slow-roll inflation. This provides perhaps the simplest way to generate an inflationary potential without…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Ewan D. Stewart

In conventional model independent approaches, the power spectrum of primordial perturbations is characterized by such free parameters as spectral index, its running, the running of running, and the tensor-to-scalar ratio. In this work we,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Moslem Zarei

We investigate the observational signatures of quantum cosmology in the Cosmic Microwave Background data provided by Planck collaboration. We apply the warm inflationary paradigm with a tachyon scalar field to the loop quantum cosmology. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-25 Vahid Kamali , Spyros Basilakos , Ahmad Mehrabi , Meysam Motaharfar , Erfan Massaeli

We construct a no-scale model of inflation with a single modulus whose real and imaginary parts are fixed by simple power-law corrections to the no-scale K{\" a}hler potential. Assuming an uplift of the minimum of the effective potential,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-21 John Ellis , Malcolm Fairbairn , Antonio Enea Romano , Oscar Zapata

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

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

It is sometimes argued that observation of tensor modes from inflation would provide the first evidence for quantum gravity. However, in the usual inflationary formalism, also the scalar modes involve quantised metric perturbations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Tommi Markkanen , Syksy Rasanen , Pyry Wahlman

The viability of slow-roll approximation is examined by considering the structure of phase spaces in scalar-tensor theories of gravitation and the analysis is exemplified with a nonminimally coupled scalar field to the spacetime curvature.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Kemal Akın , A. Savaş Arapoğlu , A. Emrah Yükselci

We derive the power spectrum $\mathcal P(k)$ of the density perturbations produced during inflation up to second-order corrections in the standard slow-roll approximation for an inflaton with more than one degree of freedom. We also present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jin-Ook Gong , Ewan D. Stewart

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

The formalism of stochastic inflation is a powerful tool for analyzing the backreaction of cosmological perturbations, and making precise predictions for inflationary observables. We demonstrate this with the simple $m^2\phi^2$ model of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Evan McDonough

In this work, we solved the scalar and tensor perturbation equations numerically and using the improved uniform approximation method together with the third-order phase-integral method, for the $\alpha$-attractor inflationary model. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Jordan Zambrano , Miguel Agama , Marcos Garzón , Werner Bramer-Escamilla , Clara Rojas , Teófilo Vargas

We study the modifications induced on scalar field inflation produced by considering a general modification of the Heisenberg algebra. We proceed by modifying the Poisson brackets on the classical theory whenever the corresponding quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 H. Garcia-Compean , D. Mata-Pacheco

Recently, it has been claimed that inflationary models with an inflection point in the scalar potential can produce a large resonance in the power spectrum of curvature perturbation. In this paper however we show that the previous analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Cristiano Germani , Tomislav Prokopec