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An inflationary scenario driven by a slow rolling homogeneous scalar field whose potential $V(\Phi)$ is given by a generalized exponential function is discussed. Within the {\sl slow-roll} approximation we investigate some of the main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. S. Alcaniz , F. C. Carvalho

We study the Nflation model, in which a collection of massive scalar fields drive the inflation simultaneously. We find, when the number of fields is larger than the square of ratio of the Planck scale $M_p$ to the average value $\bar m$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Iftikhar Ahmad , Yun-Song Piao , Cong-Feng Qiao

We show explicitly how the T model, E model, and Hilltop inflations are obtained from the general scalar-tensor theory of gravity with arbitrary conformal factors in the strong coupling limit. We argue that $\xi$ attractors can give any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong

This paper discusses a simple procedure to reconstruct f (R)-gravity models from exact cosmological solutions of the Einstein field equations with a noninteracting classical scalar field-and-radiation background. From the kind of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-15 Heba Sami , Joseph Ntahompagaze , Amare Abebe

Most models of inflation have small parameters, either to guarantee sufficient inflation or the correct magnitude of the density perturbations. In this paper we show that, in supersymmetric theories with weak scale supersymmetry breaking,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lisa Randall , Marin Soljacic , Alan Guth

Although the formulas of tachyon inflation correspond to those of the inflation driven by the ordinary scalar field, there is obvious difference between them, which can not be neglected. We calculate the scalar and tensor perturbation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Xin-zhou Li , Dao-jun Liu , Jian-gang Hao

We generalize the Effective Field Theory of Inflation to include additional light scalar degrees of freedom that are in their vacuum at the time the modes of interest are crossing the horizon. In order to make the scalars light in a natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Leonardo Senatore , Matias Zaldarriaga

We calculate the most general action for a scalar-tensor model up to quadratic order in derivatives with deformed general covariance and non-minimal coupling. We demonstrate how different choices of the free functions recover specific well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Rhiannon Cuttell , Mairi Sakellariadou

Large classes of standard single-field slow-roll inflationary models consistent with the required number of e-folds, the current bounds on the spectral index of scalar perturbations, the tensor-to-scalar ratio, and the scale of inflation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-04 Steven Abel , Andrei Constantin , Thomas R. Harvey , Andre Lukas

$SU(2)$ gauge fields can generate large gravitational waves during inflation, if they are coupled to an axion which can be either the inflaton or a spectator field. The shape of the produced tensor power spectrum $\mathcal{P}_h$ depends on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Tomohiro Fujita , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis , Maresuke Shiraishi

Inflationary models with a scalar field nonminimally coupled both with the Ricci scalar and with the Gauss-Bonnet term are studied. We propose the way of generalization of inflationary scenarios with the Gauss-Bonnet term and a scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva , Sergey Yu. Vernov

Inflation models make specific predictions for a tensor-scalar-scalar three-point correlation, or bispectrum, between one gravitational-wave (tensor) mode and two density-perturbation (scalar) modes. This tensor-scalar-scalar correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Donghui Jeong , Marc Kamionkowski

Warm inflation is, as of today, one of the best motivated mechanisms for explaining an early inflationary period. In this paper, we derive and analyze the current bounds on warm inflation with a monomial potential $U\propto \phi^p$, using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Luca Visinelli

We consider inflation with a constant rate of rolling in which a complex scalar field plays the role of inflaton during the inflationary epoch. We implement the inflationary analysis for an accredited angular speed $\dot{\theta}$ which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Ramón Herrera , Mehdi Shokri , Jafar Sadeghi

We consider the scale-invariant inflationary model studied in [1]. The Lagrangian includes all the scale-invariant operators that can be built with combinations of $R$, $R^2$ and one scalar field. The equations of motion show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-14 Giovanni Tambalo , Massimiliano Rinaldi

We investigate the generation of features at large scales in the primordial power spectrum (PPS) when inflation is driven by two scalar fields. In canonical single field models of inflation, these features are often generated due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Matteo Braglia , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , L. Sriramkumar , Fabio Finelli

In this paper, we investigate models where a scalar field driving inflation is minimally coupled with gravity and it is subjected to a scalar potential. We present several examples of coupling between the field and gravity, and we furnish…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-01 Shynaray Myrzakul , Ratbay Myrzakulov , Lorenzo Sebastiani

We study to what extent the spectral index $n_s$ and the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ determine the field excursion $\Delta\phi$ during inflation. We analyse the possible degeneracy of $\Delta \phi$ by comparing three broad classes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-08 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Diederik Roest , Marco Scalisi , Ivonne Zavala

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 consider the reconstruction technique in theories with a single or multiple (phantom and/or canonical) scalar fields. With the help of several examples, it is demonstrated explicitly that the universe expansion history, unifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Emilio Elizalde , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Sáez-Gómez , Valerio Faraoni