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We calculate the tensor bispectrum mediated by an excited scalar field during inflation and find that the bispectrum peaks in the squeezed configuration, which is different from that of gravitational waves induced by enhanced curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Zhi-Zhang Peng , Cheng-Jun Fang , Zong-Kuan Guo

We argue that a plausible operational definition for an initial state of the Universe is the initial quantum state of the curvature perturbations generated during inflation. We provide a parameterization of this state and generalize the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-11 Nishant Agarwal , R. Holman , Andrew J. Tolley

We consider production of additional relativistic particles coupled to the inflaton. We show that the imprints of these particles on the spectrum of primordial perturbations can be used for the direct measurement of the speed of sound of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Ali Akbar Abolhasani , Sadra Jazayeri

We study slow-roll inflation and the generation of primordial fluctuations in $F(T)$ gravity's rainbow. We obtain the second order action for scalar and tensor perturbations and then calculate the primordial power spectrum for them. Thus,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-18 Yoelsy Leyva , Carlos Leiva , Giovanni Otalora , Joel Saavedra

In this companion to our letter (arXiv:2208.10514), we elaborate the full details of the predicted corrections to the primordial scalar and tensor power spectra that arise from quantum gravity-motivated, natural, covariant ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Aidan Chatwin-Davies , Achim Kempf , Petar Simidzija

During inflationary preheating, the energy stored in the inflaton field is rapidly converted into excitations of other entropy fields. This stage is characterized by exponential particle production due to parametric resonance and is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Jie Jiang , Qiuyue Liang , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Yang Zhang

We employ the formalism of the effective field theory of inflation to study the effects of a sudden change in the speed of sound of the inflationary perturbations. Such an event generates a feature with high frequency oscillations both in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Minjoon Park , Lorenzo Sorbo

The tree order power spectra of primordial inflation depend upon the norm-squared of mode functions which oscillate for early times and then freeze in to constant values. We derive simple differential equations for the power spectra, that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Maria G. Romania , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

We compute the three point correlation functions for primordial scalar and tensor fluctuations in single field inflationary models. We obtain explicit expressions in the slow roll limit where the answer is given terms of the two usual slow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Juan Maldacena

Fundamental formulae representing the density perturbation spectrums generated in inflationary scenarios are rigorously proved. Quantum fluctuations as initial conditions for structure generation in some inflationary era can be calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Hwang

Under the presence of anisotropic sources in the inflationary era, the trispectrum of the primordial curvature perturbation has a very specific angular dependence between each wavevector that is distinguishable from the one encountered when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Maresuke Shiraishi , Nicola Bartolo , Michele Liguori

The computation of the spectrum of primordial perturbations, generated by a scalar field during the super-inflationary phase of Loop Quantum Cosmology, is revisited. The calculation is performed for two different cases. The first considers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. J. Mulryne , N. J. Nunes

Classically oscillating massive fields can be used as "standard clocks" in the primordial universe. They generate features in primordial density perturbations that directly record the scale factor evolution a(t). Detecting and measuring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-22 Xingang Chen , Christophe Ringeval

The calculation of scalar gravitational and matter perturbations during multiple-field inflation valid to first order in slow roll is discussed. These fields may be the coordinates of a non-trivial field manifold and hence have non-minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. W. van Tent , S. Groot Nibbelink

It is sometimes argued that observation of tensor modes from inflation would provide the first evidence for quantum gravity. However, in the usual inflationary formalism, also the scalar modes involve quantised metric perturbations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-05 Tommi Markkanen , Syksy Rasanen , Pyry Wahlman

Signatures of heavy particles during inflation are exponentially suppressed by the Boltzmann factor when the masses are far above the Hubble scale. In more realistic scenarios, however, scale-dependent features may change this conventional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Dong-Gang Wang , Bowei Zhang

Recently, we presented a unified way of analysing classical cosmological perturbation in generalized gravity theories. In this paper, we derive the perturbation spectrums generated from quantum fluctuations again in unified forms. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. Hwang

We study the effects of sudden change in the sound velocity on primordial curvature perturbation spectrum in inflationary cosmology, assuming that the background evolution satisfies the slow-roll condition throughout. It is found that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-03 Masahiro Nakashima , Ryo Saito , Yu-ichi Takamizu , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We present a new formulation for the evaluation of the primordial spectrum of curvature perturbations generated during inflation, using the fact that the Wronskian of the scalar field perturbation equation is constant. In the literature,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shuichiro Yokoyama , Takahiro Tanaka , Misao Sasaki , Ewan D. Stewart