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Picking out DBI scalar field as inflation, the slow-rolling inflationary scenario is studied by attributing an exponential time function to scale factor; known as intermediate inflation. The perturbation parameters of the model are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-15 N. Nazavari , A. Mohammadi , Z. Ossoulian , Kh. Saaidi

The bispectrum of single-field inflationary trajectories in which the speed of sound of the inflationary trajectories $c_s$ is constant but not equal to the speed of light $c=1$ is explored. The trajectories are generated as random…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-30 Jonathan S. Horner , Carlo R. Contaldi

We consider Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) inflationary models using the effective potential approach. We present evolution equations in the slow-roll regime using the effective potential and the tensor-to-scalar ratio. The choice of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva

We reconsider the toy-model of topological inflation, based on the R*4-modified gravity. By using its equivalence to the certain scalar-tensor gravity model in four space-time dimensions, we compute the inflaton scalar potential and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-11 S. Kaneda , S. V. Ketov , N. Watanabe

A procedure is developed for the recovery of the inflationary potential over the interval that affects astrophysical scales ($\approx 1\Mpc - 10^4\Mpc$). The amplitudes of the scalar and tensor metric perturbations and their power-spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 M. S. Turner

We consider cosmological inflation driven by the rolling tachyon in the context of the braneworld scenario. We show that sufficient inflation consistent with the observational constraints can be achieved for well defined upper limits on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 M. C. Bento , O. Bertolami , A. A. Sen

We consider the spectrum of primordial fluctuations produced by inflationary models where the inflaton potential is the sum of two exponential terms. A wide range of spectra result, with the only constraint being that the scalar spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Richard Easther

We investigate the cosmological inflation for the Einstein-Hilbert action plus the Higgs potential function and the Gauss-Bonnet term coupled with the Higgs scalar field through a dilaton-like coupling. Then, using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Zahra Ahghari , Mehrdad Farhoudi

We examine the power-law Starobinsky model, a generalized version of the Starobinsky inflation model, characterized by a power-law correction to Einstein gravity. Employing the $f(R)$ formalism, the scalar and tensor power spectra were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Saisandri Saini , Akhilesh Nautiyal

Modeling the potential by an inverse square law in terms of the tachyon field ($V(T)=\beta T^{-2}$) we find exact solution for spatially flat isotropic universe.We show that for $\beta>2\sqrt{3}/3$ the model undergoes power-law inflation. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Feinstein

$k$-inflation represents the most general single-field inflation, in which the perturbations usually obey an equation of motion with a time-dependent sound speed. In this paper, we study the observational predictions of the $k$-inflation by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Gerald Cleaver , Klaus Kirsten , Qin Sheng

In this work we use an inverse reconstruction technique for constructing ACT-compatible and GW170817-compatible Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet inflationary theories. From a given tensor-to-scalar ratio using the reconstruction technique, we find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 V. K. Oikonomou

The original model of axion natural inflation produces a tensor-to-scalar ratio above the experimental limit. Aligned axion inflation admits inflationary trajectories that originate near a saddle point of the two-field potential, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Federico Greco , Marco Peloso

We investigate the observational signatures of quantum cosmology in the Cosmic Microwave Background data provided by Planck collaboration. We apply the warm inflationary paradigm with a tachyon scalar field to the loop quantum cosmology. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-25 Vahid Kamali , Spyros Basilakos , Ahmad Mehrabi , Meysam Motaharfar , Erfan Massaeli

We show that the non-minimal coupling of tachyon field to the scalar curvature, as proposed by Piao et al, with the chosen coupling parameter does not produce the effective potential where the tachyon field can roll down from T=0 to large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Pravabati Chingangbam , Sudhakar Panda , Atri Deshamukhya

In continuation of the papers hep-th/0505012 and hep-th/0508101 we investigate the consequences when $N$ open-string tachyons roll down simultaneously. We demonstrate that the $N$-Tachyon system coupled to gravity does indeed give rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Harvendra Singh

Solid inflation can support a long period of anisotropic inflation. We calculate the statistical anisotropies in the scalar and tensor power spectra and their cross-correlation in anisotropic solid inflation. The tensor-scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mohammad Akhshik , Razieh Emami , Hassan Firouzjahi , Yi Wang

We explore the inflationary phase of a scalar field with a kinetic term non-minimally coupled to gravity. We find that one of the slow-roll conditions is naturally consequence of the equation of motion of the scalar field. Thus, slow-roll…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-16 Amir Ghalee

We analyse Hybrid Natural Inflation in view of the recent results for the tensor index reported by BICEP2. We find that it predicts a large running of the scalar spectrum which is potentially detectable by large scale structure and $21\,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mariana Carrillo-Gonzalez , Gabriel German , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Roberto Sussman

We consider a model of inflation in which the inflaton field is a rolling axion with a potential which is flat enough to support an intermediate phase of USR inflation. Because of the Chern-Simons interaction, one polarization of the gauge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Alireza Talebian , Hassan Firouzjahi