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Inflation models can have an early phase of inflation where the evolution of the inflaton is driven by quantum fluctuations before entering the phase driven by the slope of the scalar field potential. For a Coleman-Weinberg potential this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-06 Arjun Berera , Raghavan Rangarajan

We study inflation driven by a slow-rolling inflaton field, characterised by a quadratic potential, and incorporating radiative corrections within the context of supergravity. In this model the energy scale of inflation is not overly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-16 Gabriel German , Graham Ross , Subir Sarkar

We consider curved space quantum corrections to the equations of motion of the inflaton field in the early Universe. Using the stochastic formalism in phase space, we demonstrate that the quantum corrected evolution of the inflaton can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Zygmunt Lalak , Rudolf Poppe

We investigate uniform rate inflationary universe in the framework of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) and find that this seemingly simple inflationary model is interlinked with various concepts such as cyclic evolution, HNI inflation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-24 Bikash Chandra Paul , Sahil Saini

The inflationary and pre-inflationary evolution of scalar modes of cosmological perturbations in a closed universe is analyzed for a loop quantum cosmology model with an inflationary regime consistent with the constraints on inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Lucas M. V. Montese , Nelson Yokomizo

Using techniques from loop quantum gravity, the standard theory of cosmological perturbations was recently generalized to encompass the Planck era. We now apply this framework to explore pre-inflationary dynamics. The framework enables us…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

We present uniform rate inflation in a modified $f(T, \mathcal{T}) $ gravity. It is found that early inflation can be realized even with a scalar field field with a quadratic potential and a negative cosmological constant. We construct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Priyanka Mandal , B. C. Paul

In scenarios of physical interest in Loop Quantum Cosmology, with a preinflationary epoch where the kinetic energy of the inflaton dominates, the analytic study of the dynamics of the primordial fluctuations has been carried out by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-03 Beatriz Elizaga Navascués , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Jesús Yébana Carrilero

I give a brief review of the status of research on the nature of initial conditions required to obtain a period of cosmological inflation. It is shown that there is good evidence that in the case of large field models, the inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Robert Brandenberger

We consider the measure problem in standard slow-roll inflationary models from the perspective of loop quantum cosmology (LQC). Following recent results by Ashtekar and Sloan, we study the probability of having enough e-foldings and focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Alejandro Corichi , Asieh Karami

The aim of this paper is to provide a more precise description of the paradigm of corpuscular slow-roll inflation, which was previously introduced by Casadio et al. in [1]. Specifically, we start by expanding the Starobinsky theory on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Andrea Giugno , Andrea Giusti

We study the effect on the primordial tensor power spectrum of varying the number of e-folds during slow-roll inflation in Loop Quantum Cosmology with a Starobinsky potential. Using the hybrid quantization approach, we derive the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Marceau Henry , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Antonio Vicente-Becerril

We revisit the predictions for the duration of the inflationary phase after the bounce in loop quantum cosmology. We present our analysis for different classes of inflationary potentials that include the monomial power-law chaotic type of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-28 L. N. Barboza , G. L. L. W. Levy , L. L. Graef , Rudnei O. Ramos

We obtain effective equations of inflationary dynamics for the mean inflaton and metric fields in the no-boundary and tunneling quantum states of the Universe. In the slow roll approximation (taking the form of the local Schwiger-DeWitt…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

Slow-roll inflation can be studied as an effective field theory. The form of the inflaton potential consistent with the data is V(phi) = N M^4 w(phi/[sqrt{N} M_{Pl}]) where phi is the inflaton field, M is the inflation energy scale, and N ~…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

Transitions between different inflationary slow-roll scenarios are known to provide short non-slow-roll periods with non-trivial consequences. We consider the effect of quantum diffusion on the inflationary dynamics in a transition process.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Nahid Ahmadi , Mahdiyar Noorbala , Niloufar Feyzabadi , Fatemeh Eghbalpoor , Zahra Ahmadi

Inflation is the currently accepted paradigm for the beginnings of the Universe. To explain the observed almost scale invariant spectrum of density perturbations with only a slight spectral tilt, inflation must have been "slow roll", that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-07 Hao Geng

The eternal inflation problem continues to be considered one of standard's cosmology most serious shortcomings. This arises when one considers the effects of "quantum fluctuations" (QF) on the zero mode of inflaton field during a Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 R. L. Lechuga , D. Sudarsky

A problematic feature of low energy scale inflationary models, such as Starobinsky inflation, in a spatially closed universe is the occurrence of a recollapse and a big crunch singularity before inflation can even set in. In a recent work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 Meysam Motaharfar , Parampreet Singh

We will show that for exponential type potentials, which are used to depict quintessential inflation, the solutions whose initial conditions take place during the slow roll phase in order to describe correctly the inflationary period do not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Llibert Areste Salo , Jaume Haro