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We study the inflation in a model with a Gauss-Bonnet term which is non-minimally coupled to a DBI field. We study the spectrum of the primordial perturbations in detail. The non-Gaussianity of this model is considered and the amplitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kourosh Nozari , Narges Rashidi

We obtain cosmological constraints on models of inflation which exhibit rapid roll solutions. Rapid roll attractors exist for potentials with large mass terms and are thus of interest for inflationary model building within string theory. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Takeshi Kobayashi , Shinji Mukohyama , Brian A. Powell

In this work, we consider intermediate inflation in context of the Generalized Non-Minimal Derivative Coupling (GNMDC) model. In this model, inflation is driven by a canonical scalar field that is coupled not only to gravity but also to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Parviz Goodarzi

We study inflection point inflation using Singularity Theory, which relates degenerate critical points of functions to their local behavior. This approach illuminates universal features of small-field models and gives analytic control over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-28 Sean Downes , Bhaskar Dutta , Kuver Sinha

The slow-roll approximation is the usual starting point to study the constraints imposed on the inflaton potential parameters by the observational data. We show that, for a potential exhibiting at least two extrema and giving rise to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tiago Charters , Jose P. Mimoso , Ana Nunes

We propose to describe the acceleration of the universe by introducing a model of two coupled fluids. We focus on the accelerated expansion at the early stages. The inflationary expansion is described in terms of a van der Waals equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-28 I. Brevik , V. V. Obukhov , A. V. Timoshkin

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

Inflation predicts the generation of cosmological perturbations. Usually, the power spectra for the scalar and tensor modes are calculated with help of the slow roll approximation. In the case of power law inflation an exact result is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik J. Schwarz , Jerome Martin

Inspired by the Generalized Proca Theory, we study a vector-tensor model of inflation with massive vector fields and derivative self-interactions. The action under consideration contains a usual Maxwell-like kinetic term, a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-15 A. Oliveros , Marcos A. Jaraba

We investigate all single-field, slow-roll inflationary models whose slow-roll parameters scale as 1/N in the limit of a large number of e-folds N. We proof that all such models belong to two universality classes, characterised by a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Diederik Roest

Many alternatives to canonical slow-roll inflation have been proposed over the years, one of the main motivations being to have a model, capable of generating observable values of non-Gaussianity. In this work, we (re-)explore the physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-06 David Pirtskhalava , Luca Santoni , Enrico Trincherini

Motivated by $\alpha$-attractor models, in this paper we consider a Gauss-Bonnet inflation with E-model type of potential. We consider the Gauss-Bonnet coupling function to be the same as the E-model potential. In the small $\alpha$ limit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Kourosh Nozari , Narges Rashidi

Inflation in cosmology is a specific stage preceding the Big Bang, aimed at solving both old background problems and new perturbation issues. Single-field inflation is a candidate to illustrate the picture of the initial universe, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Guanqiao Liu

We consider an Einstein-Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravitational theory, and argue that at early times the Ricci scalar can be safely ignored. We then demonstrate that the pure scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory, with a quadratic coupling function,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Panagiota Kanti , Radouane Gannouji , Naresh Dadhich

We study the possibility that inflation is driven by a scalar field together with a vector field minimally coupled to gravity. By assuming an effective potential that incorporates both fields into the action, we explore two distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Ramon Herrera

We investigate the Lyth relationship between the tensor-scalar ratio, r, and the variation of the inflaton field, Delta phi, over the course of inflation. For inflationary models that produce at least 55 e-folds of inflation, there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 George Efstathiou , Katherine J. Mack

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

We study quintessential inflation with an inverse hyperbolic type potential $V(\phi) = {V_0}/{\cosh \left( {\phi^n}/{\lambda^n} \right)}$, where $V_0$, $\lambda$ and "n" are parameters of the theory. We obtain a bound on $\lambda$ for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-04 Abhineet Agarwal , R. Myrzakulov , M. Sami , Naveen K. Singh

We investigate the scalar perturbation of the inflation model driven by a massive-scalar field in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. We focus on the perturbation at the attractor stage in which the first and the second slow-roll…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Inyong Cho , Naveen K. Singh

We derive the reconstruction formulae for the inflation model with the non-minimal derivative coupling term. If reconstructing the potential from the tensor-to-scalar ratio, we could obtain the potential without using the high friction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-23 Qin Fei , Zhu Yi , Yingjie Yang