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Inflation is studied in the context of induced gravity (IG) $\gamma \sigma^2 R$, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar, $\sigma$ a scalar field and $\gamma$ a dimensionless constant, and diverse symmetry-breaking potentials $V(\sigma)$ are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 A. Cerioni , F. Finelli , A. Tronconi , G. Venturi

We revisit the inflection point inflation with an extended discussion to large field values and consider the reheating effects on the inflationary predictions. Parametrizing the reheating dynamics in terms of the reheating temperature and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Soo-Min Choi , Hyun Min Lee

We have tested some simple quintessential inflation models, imposing that they match with the recent observational data provided by the BICEP and Planck's team and leading to a reheating temperature, which is obtained via gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 Llibert Aresté Saló , Jaume de Haro

We study the post-inflationary dynamics for reheating and freeze-in dark matter in the Higgs-$R^2$ inflation model. Taking the perturbative approach for reheating, we determine the evolution of the temperature for radiation bath produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Shuntaro Aoki , Hyun Min Lee , Adriana G. Menkara , Kimiko Yamashita

The article presents modeling of inflationary scenarios for the first time in the $f(R,T)$ theory of gravity. We assume the $f(R,T)$ functional from to be $R + \eta T$, where $R$ denotes the Ricci scalar, $T$ the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-03 Snehasish Bhattacharjee , J. R. L. Santos , P. H. R. S. Moraes , P. K. Sahoo

We investigate the influence on the inflationary predictions from the reheating processes characterized by the $e$-folding number $N_{\mathrm{reh}}$ and the effective equation-of-state parameter $w_{\mathrm{reh}}$ during the reheating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-10 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang

We study the out-of-equilibrium nonlinear dynamics of fields after post-inflationary preheating. During preheating, the energy in the homogeneous inflaton is exponentially rapidly transfered into highly occupied out-of-equilibrium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Dmitry I. Podolsky , Gary N. Felder , Lev Kofman , Marco Peloso

As additional perturbative degrees of freedom, it is known that magnetic fields of inflationary origin can source curvature perturbations on super-Hubble scales. By requiring the magnetic generated curvature to remain smaller than its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Christophe Ringeval , Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

It is assumed that during inflation, all energy was contained in a slow-rolling inflaton field $\phi$. The particles constituting the Universe are created due to interactions with the field $\phi$ coherently oscillating after inflation. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

One of the most important issues in an inflationary theory as standard or quintessential inflation is the mechanism to reheat the universe after the end of the inflationary period in order to match with the Hot Big Bang universe. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-03 Jaume Haro , Llibert Aresté Saló

This research paper used a newly proposed strategy for finding the exact inflationary solutions to the Friedman equations in the context of Rastall theory of gravity (RTG), which is known as constant-roll warm inflation (CRWI). The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Rabia Saleem , Iqra Shahid , M. Israr Aslam , Abdul Wahab

The reheating temperature plays a crucial role in the early universe's evolution, marking the transition from inflation to the radiation-dominated era. It directly impacts the number of $e$-folds and, consequently, the observable parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Jaume de Haro , Supriya Pan

By applying a particular kind of modified gravity, we study the inflation. Precisely, we extend our investigations beyond the Einstein's gravity to explore the Natural inflation model via the term $F(\phi)T$. We compute the inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Feyzollah Younesizadeh , Davoud Kamani

Assuming a first order phase transition during inflation, a model scenario is described which does not require a tiny coupling constant. Thermal equilibrium is closely maintained as inflation commences. No large scale reheating is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Arjun Berera

A description of the transition from the inflationary epoch to radiation domination requires the understanding of quantum fields out of thermal equilibrium, particle creation and thermalisation. This can be studied from first principles by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gert Aarts , Anders Tranberg

According to the standard lore, a prolonged inflation leaves a quantum field theory in a cold, low entropy state. Thus, some mechanism is needed to reheat this post-inflationary state, leaving a hot, thermal, radiation-dominated Universe.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Alex Buchel

Considering the inflation model based on a $f(R)$ gravity theory, we obtain several important constraints from the large angular scale CMBR observations. First, the ordinary slow-roll assumption during the inflation together with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-11 Hyerim Noh

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

Inflation is known to produce large infrared scalar fluctuations. Further, if a scalar field $(\chi)$ is non-minimally coupled with gravity through $\xi \chi^2 R$, those infrared modes experience \textit{tachyonic instability} during and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Ayan Chakraborty , Debaprasad Maity , Rajesh Mondal

In this article, we explore the concept of cosmological inflation within the framework of the $f (T,\mathcal{T})$ theory of gravity, where $f$ is a general function of the Torsion scalar $T$ and the trace, $\mathcal{T}$, of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Aaqid Bhat , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo