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This paper investigates a scale-invariant inflationary model characterized by a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity and a curvature term quadratic in the Ricci scalar. The model's dynamic is analyzed using a full numerical…

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We study the possibility that inflation is driven by a scalar field together with a vector field minimally coupled to gravity. By assuming an effective potential that incorporates both fields into the action, we explore two distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Ramon Herrera

While cosmological inflation can erase primordial inhomogeneities, it is possible that inflation may not begin in a significantly inhomogeneous universe. This issue is particularly pressing in multifield scenarios, where even the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-25 Richard Easther , Layne C. Price , Javier Rasero

Inflation as the leading paradigm depicting the very early universe physics could leave imprints on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Using currently available CMB observations, we give the tightest constraints on inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Deng Wang

We study a theory which generalizes the nonminimal coupling of matter to gravity by including derivative couplings. This leads to several interesting new dynamical phenomena in cosmology. In particular, the range of parameters in which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Luca Amendola

We consider the classical evolution of the inflaton field $\phi(t)$ and the Hubble parameter $H(t)$ in homogeneous and isotropic single-field inflation models. Under an extremely broad assumption, we show that the universe generically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 W. J. Handley , S. D. Brechet , A. N. Lasenby , M. P. Hobson

Nonlinear electrodynamics with two dimensional parameters is studied. The range of electromagnetic fields when principles of causality, unitarity and the classical stability hold, are obtained. A singularity of the electric field at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-27 S. I. Kruglov

We present a new class of two-field inflationary attractor models, known as `shift-symmetric orbital inflation', whose behaviour is strongly multi-field but whose predictions are remarkably close to those of single-field inflation. In these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Ana Achúcarro , Edmund J. Copeland , Oksana Iarygina , Gonzalo A. Palma , Dong-Gang Wang , Yvette Welling

A scale-invariant universe can have a period of accelerated expansion at early times: inflation. We use a frame-invariant approach to calculate inflationary observables in a scale invariant theory of gravity involving two scalar fields -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 Pedro G. Ferreira , Christopher T. Hill , Johannes Noller , Graham G. Ross

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

In the framework of effective field theories with prominent helicity-0 and helicity-1 fields coupled to each other via a dimension-3 operator, we study the dynamics of inflation driven by the helicity-0 mode, with a given potential energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Lavinia Heisenberg , Héctor Ramírez , Shinji Tsujikawa

An alternative inflationary model is proposed predicated upon a consideration of the form of the uncertainty principle in a curved background spacetime. An argument is presented suggesting a possible curvature dependence in the correct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-12 Paul J. Camp , John L. Safko

Inflationary scenarios motivated by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) where five scalar fields are non-minimally coupled to gravity are considered. The potential of the model and the function of non-minimal coupling are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-01 M. N. Dubinin , E. Yu. Petrova , E. O. Pozdeeva , S. Yu. Vernov

Inflation is an early period of accelerated cosmic expansion, thought to be sourced by high energy physics. A key task today is to use the influx of increasingly precise observational data to constrain the plethora of inflationary models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Joseph Elliston

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 investigate the circumstances under which cosmic inflation can arise from very inhomogeneous initial conditions using numerical relativity simulations. Previous studies have not considered cases with non-zero momentum density due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-15 Maxence Corman , William E. East

Inflation has long been the accepted paradigm for understanding the early universe. Most models of inflation have a scalar field acting as the inflaton particle which decays after inflation during a process called reheating into standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-30 Abhass Kumar

We calculate the primordial spectrum of scalar perturbations of the 3-form inflation and we find that the curvature perturbations decay at late times. As as result, although a non-minimally coupled massive 3-form field may drive inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Cristiano Germani , Alex Kehagias

We consider a model of two-field inflation, containing an ordinary scalar field and a DBI field. We work beyond the slow-roll approximation, but we assume a separable Hubble parameter. We then derive the form of potential in this framework…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Kourosh Nozari , Kosar Asadi

We report first study of complex field inflation. Although understood as a specific two-field inflation, a complex field inflation is able to make more robust model predictions on primordial curvature perturbation. Explicitly we discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-22 Ruopeng Zhang , Sibo Zheng