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Perturbation theory makes it possible to calculate the probability distribution function (PDF) of the large scale density field in the small variance limit. For top hat smoothing and scale-free Gaussian initial fluctuations, the result…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Colombi , F. Bernardeau , F. R. Bouchet , L. Hernquist

We use the Hamilton-Jacobi (H-J) formulation of stochastic inflation to describe the evolution of the inflaton during a period of Ultra-Slow Roll (USR), taking into account the field's velocity and its gravitational backreaction. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-06 Gerasimos Rigopoulos , Ashley Wilkins

Chaotic inflation is inconsistent with the observational constraint at 68\% CL. Here, we show that the enhancement mechanism with a peak function in the noncanonical kinetic term not only helps the chaotic model $V(\phi)=V_0\phi^{1/3}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-29 Qing Gao

We carried out numerical calculations of a contribution of the waterfall field to the primordial curvature perturbation (on uniform density hypersurfaces) $\zeta$, which is produced during waterfall transition in hybrid inflation scenario.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-17 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

We propose a new model-independent mechanism for producing primordial black holes from a period of multi-field inflation. This requires an enhancement of primordial fluctuations at short scales compared to their value at CMB scales. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , John W. Ronayne , Lukas T. Witkowski

The $\Delta N$ formalism, based on the counting of the number of e-folds during inflation in different local patches of the Universe, has been introduced several years ago as a simple and physically intuitive approach to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Sabino Matarrese , Luigi Pilo , Rocco Rollo

In purely normal elastic rough surface contact problems, Persson's theory of contact shows that the evolution of the probability density function (PDF) of contact pressure with the magnification is governed by a diffusion equation. However,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-20 Yang Xu , Junki Joe , Xiaobao Li , Yunong Zhou

Working in an idealised framework in which a series of phases of evolution defined by the second slow-roll parameter $\eta$ are matched together, we calculate the reduced bispectrum, $f_{\rm NL}$, for models of inflation with a large peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-08 Matthew W. Davies , Pedro Carrilho , David J. Mulryne

We study the ultra slow roll model in the context of stochastic inflation. Using stochastic $\delta N$ formalism, we calculate the mean number of $e$-folds, the power spectrum, the bispectrum and the stochastic corrections into these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Hassan Firouzjahi , Amin Nassiri-Rad , Mahdiyar Noorbala

Within the framework of scalar-tensor theories, we study the conditions that allow single field inflation dynamics on small cosmological scales to significantly differ from that of the large scales probed by the observations of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Kristjan Kannike , Luca Marzola , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe

We compute the power spectrum of super-horizon curvature perturbations generated during a late period of thermal inflation, taking into account fluctuation-dissipation effects resulting from the scalar flaton field's interactions with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-22 Mar Bastero-Gil , Joaquim M. Gomes , João G. Rosa

We present a general framework to treat the evolution of one-point probability distribution function (PDF) for cosmic density $\delta$ and velocity-divergence fields $\theta$. In particular, we derive an evolution equation for the one-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yasuhiro Ohta , Issha Kayo , Atsushi Taruya

We study the evolution of quantum fluctuations of gravity around an inflationary solution in renormalizable quantum gravity, in which the initial scalar-fluctuation dominance is shown by the background-free nature expressed by a special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-19 Ken-ji Hamada

The gravitationally enhanced friction can reduce the speed of the inflaton to realize an ultra-slow-roll inflation, which will amplify the curvature perturbations. The amplified perturbations can generate a sizable amount of primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 Li-Yang Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

Probability Distributions Functions (PDFs) of fluctuations of plasma edge parameters are skewed curves fairly different from normal distributions, whose shape appears almost independent of the plasma conditions and devices. We start from a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-04-23 F. Sattin

The non-Gaussian distribution of primordial perturbations has the potential to reveal the physical processes at work in the very early Universe. Local models provide a well-defined class of non-Gaussian distributions that arise naturally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 David Wands

The large enhancement of the primordial power spectrum of the curvature perturbation can seed the formation of primordial black hole, that can play as a dark matter component in the Universe. In multi-filed inflation models, the curved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-05 Ki-Young Choi , Su-beom Kang , Rathul Nath Raveendran

This paper considers warm inflation as an interesting application of multi-field inflation. Delta-N formalism is used for the calculation of the evolution of the curvature perturbations during warm inflation. Although the perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Tomohiro Matsuda

We calculate the exact formation probability of primordial black holes generated during the collapse at horizon re-entry of large fluctuations produced during inflation, such as those ascribed to a period of ultra-slow-roll. We show that it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-02 Matteo Biagetti , Valerio De Luca , Gabriele Franciolini , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

We consider inflation in the system containing a Ricci scalar squared term and a canonical scalar field with quadratic mass term. In the Einstein frame this model takes the form of a two-field inflation model with a curved field space, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Taro Mori , Kazunori Kohri , Jonathan White