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In this work, we study early-time inflation within a class of $f(R, \phi, X)$ gravity models under a constant-roll condition. Employing a generalized potential of the form $V(\phi)^\sigma$, we derive expressions for the spectral index $n_s$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Ali I. Keskin , Mehmet Yaşar , K. Kurt

Inflationary $\alpha$-attractor models in supergravity, which provide excellent fits to the latest observational data, are based on the Poincare disk hyperbolic geometry. We refine these models by constructing Kahler potentials with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-23 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde

In this note we point out that, contrary to the standard point of view, slow roll inflation is due to high gravitational friction. We show that the requirement of slow roll coincides with the requirement of a flat scalar field potential in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Cristiano Germani

We study the effects of the non-attractor initial conditions for the canonical single-field inflation. The non-attractor stage can last only several $e$-folding numbers, and should be followed by hilltop inflation. This two-stage evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-13 Yi-Fu Cai , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Dong-Gang Wang , Ziwei Wang

The scenario of constant-roll inflation is studied where the inflaton is a scalar field with modified kinetic term, known as non-canonical scalar field. This modification leads to some changes in the slow-roll parameters, and also by taking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Abolhassan Mohammadi , Khaled Saaidi , Haidar Sheikhahmadi

Cosmological alpha-attractors give a natural explanation for the spectral index n_s of inflation as measured by Planck while predicting a range for the tensor-to-scalar ratio r, consistent with all observations, to be measured more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Diederik Roest

Recently, several broad classes of inflationary models have been discovered whose cosmological predictions are stable with respect to significant modifications of the inflaton potential. Some classes of models are based on a non-minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-16 Mario Galante , Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Diederik Roest

The equations for quintessential $\alpha$-attractor inflation with a single scalar field, radiation and matter in a spatially flat FLRW spacetime are recast into a regular dynamical system on a compact state space. This enables a complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-08 Artur Alho , Claes Uggla

We consider a broad class of inflationary models that arise naturally in supergravity. They are defined in terms of a parameter $\alpha$ that determines the curvature and cutoff of these models. As a function of this parameter, we exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Diederik Roest

In the framework of gravitational models obtained from the Geometric Inflation's proposal, where an infinite tower of curvature scalars are included into the action, we compute the slow-roll parameters by the Hubble slow-roll approach. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Gustavo Arciniega , Luisa Jaime , Gabriella Piccinelli

Single field inflationary models are investigated within Palatini quadratic gravity represented by $R+\alpha R^2$ along with a non-minimal coupling of the form $f(\phi) R$ between the inflaton field $\phi$ and the gravity. The treatment is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Mahmoud AlHallak

Non-abelian gauge field inflation is studied in the context of warm inflation scenario. We introduce this scenario as a mechanism that gives an end for gauge-flation model. Slow-roll parameters and perturbation parameters are presented for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

We develop a new class of cosmological attractors which are compatible with the recent ACT results. They are based on two types of fractional Kaehler potentials, K, for a gauge-singlet inflaton phi which reduce, along the inflationary path,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 C. Pallis

It is shown that a large class of higher-order (i.e. non-quadratic) scalar kinetic terms can, without the help of potential terms, drive an inflationary evolution starting from rather generic initial conditions. In many models, this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Armendariz-Picon , T. Damour , V. Mukhanov

A study of the slow-roll inflation for an exponential potential in the frame of the scalar-tensor theory is performed, where non-minimal kinetic coupling to curvature and non-minimal coupling of the scalar field to the Gauss-Bonnet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-24 L. N. Granda , D. F. Jimenez

We construct the simplest inflationary $\alpha$-attractor models in supergravity: it has only one scalar, the inflaton. There is no sinflaton since the inflaton belongs to an orthogonal nilpotent superfield where the sinflaton depends on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Renata Kallosh , Yusuke Yamada

We explore in detail the dynamics of multi-field inflationary models. We first revisit the two-field case and rederive the coordinate independent expression for the attractor solution with either small or large turn rate, emphasizing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-13 Perseas Christodoulidis , Robert Rosati

A generalization of inflationary $\alpha$-attractor models (``polynomial $\alpha$-attractor'') was recently proposed by Kallosh and Linde, in which the potential involves logarithmic functions of the inflaton so that the derivative of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Kei-ichiro Kubota , Hiroki Matsui , Takahiro Terada

We discuss phenomenological aspects of no-scale supergravity inflationary models motivated by compactified string models, in which the inflaton may be identified either as a K\"ahler modulus or an untwisted matter field, focusing on models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-07 John Ellis , Marcos A. G. Garcia , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos , Keith A. Olive

In this work, we studied the slow-roll approximation of cosmic inflation within the context of $f(R,T)$ gravity, where $R$ is the scalar curvature, and $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. By choosing a minimal coupling between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Mauricio Gamonal