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In the framework of polynomial Palatini cosmology, we investigate a simple cosmological homogeneous and isotropic model with matter in the Einstein frame. We show that in this model during cosmic evolution, it appears the early inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-22 Marek Szydlowski , Aleksander Stachowski

In the present work we study cosmology in dilatonic $f(R,T)$ gravity to address the inflationary phase of the early Universe. As usual, in dilatonic gravity the scalar potential assumes the exponential form. However, this potential is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-19 Francisco A. Brito , Carlos H. A. B. Borges , Jose A. V. Campos , Francisco G. Costa

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 propose a model for cosmic inflation which is based on an effective description of strongly interacting, nonsupersymmetric matter within the framework of dynamical Abelian projection and centerization. The underlying gauge symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Hofmann , Mathias Th. Keil

We investigate the possible effect of cosmological-constant type dark energy during the inflation period of the early universe. This is accommodated by a new dispersion relation in de Sitter space. The modified inflation model of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Zhe Chang , Ming-Hua Li , Sai Wang , Xin Li

We develop a frame-covariant formulation of inflation in the slow-roll approximation by generalizing the inflationary attractor solution for scalar-curvature theories. Our formulation gives rise to new generalized forms for the potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Daniel Burns , Sotirios Karamitsos , Apostolos Pilaftsis

We study in detail the recently proposed mechanism of generating superheavy Dark Matter with the mass larger than the Hubble rate at the end of inflation. A real scalar field constituting Dark Matter linearly couples to the inflaton. As a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-04 Eugeny Babichev , Dmitry Gorbunov , Sabir Ramazanov

The existence of the inflationary era in the early Universe seems to be strongly supported by recent CMB observations. However, only a few realistic inflation scenarios which have close relation to particle physics seem to have been known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-05 Romy H. S. Budhi , Shoichi Kashiwase , Daijiro Suematsu

The recently suggested generalized unimodular gravity theory, which was originally put forward as a model of dark energy, can serve as a model of cosmological inflation driven by the effective perfect fluid -- the dark purely gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 A. O. Barvinsky , N. Kolganov

In this work, we investigate the possibility of generating an inflationary mechanism within the framework of a metric-$f(R)$ modified gravity theory, formulated in the Jordan frame. We explore whether the scalar field, non-minimally coupled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 Elisa Fazzari , Chiara De Leo , Giovanni Montani , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandro Melchiorri , Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera

One of the fundamental objectives of contemporary cosmology is to understand the physics of the inflationary universe, owing to its observably verifiable predictions about the very early universe with an energy scale of $\sim 10^{16}$ GeV.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Aayush Randeep , Rajib Saha

We investigate inflation within $f(R,\phi)$-theories, where a dynamical scalar field is coupled to gravity. A class of models which can support early-time acceleration with the emerging of an effective cosmological constant at high…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-13 R. Myrzakulov , L. Sebastiani , S. Vagnozzi

We propose a novel enhancement mechanism of the curvature perturbations in the nonminimal derivative coupling inflation model with a coupling parameter related to the inflaton field. By considering a special form of the coupling parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We present a model where early inflation and late accelerating expansion of the Universe are driven by the real and imaginary parts of a single complex scalar field, which we identified as inflaton and phantom field, respectively. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Abdel Pérez-Lorenzana , Merced Montesinos , Tonatiuh Matos

We propose a mechanism for generating an inflationary phase in the early universe without resorting to any type of scalar field(s). Instead, this accelerated expansion is driven by a dynamical "cosmological constant" in the framework of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-18 Gabriel Leon

We investigate the possibility that the Universe may inflate due to moduli fields, corresponding to flat directions of supersymmetry, lifted by supergravity corrections. Using a hybrid-type potential we obtain a two-stage inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-20 K. Dimopoulos , M. Axenides

The possibility of mass in the context of scale-invariant, generally covariant theories, is discussed. Scale invariance is considered in the context of a gravitational theory where the action, in the first order formalism, is of the form $S…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Guendelman

Slow-roll inflation is studied in theories where the inflaton field is conformally coupled to the Ricci scalar. In particular, the case of Higgs field inflation in the context of the noncommutative spectral action is analyzed. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-31 Michel Buck , Malcolm Fairbairn , Mairi Sakellariadou

We develop a quantum theory of inflaton and its decay product of various gauge boson pairs to investigate the preheating towards thermalized universe. The inflaton decay into gauge-boson pairs is shown to be inevitably accompanied by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Kunio Kaneta , Kin-ya Oda , Motohiko Yoshimura

We have explicitly demonstrated that scalar coupled Gauss-Bonnet gravity in four dimension can have non-trivial effects on the early inflationary stage of our universe. In particular, we have shown that the scalar coupled Gauss-Bonnet term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Sumanta Chakraborty , Tanmoy Paul , Soumitra SenGupta