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An appealing feature of inflationary cosmology is the presence of a phase-space attractor, "slow roll", which washes out the dependence on initial field velocities. We investigate the robustness of this property under backreaction from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-05 Julien Grain , Vincent Vennin

We propose a novel scenario in which scalar perturbations, that seed the large scale structure of the Universe, are generated without relying on a scalar field (the inflaton). In this framework, inflation is driven by a de Sitter space-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Daniele Bertacca , Raul Jimenez , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

We analyze the presumptions which lead to instabilities in theories of order higher than second. That type of fourth order gravity which leads to an inflationary (quasi de Sitter) period of cosmic evolution by inclusion of one curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hans - Juergen Schmidt

The decoherence mechanism is believed to be possibly connected to the quantum to classical transition of the primordial cosmological perturbations in the early universe. In this paper, we extend our previous analysis on decoherence in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-06 Sourav Bhattacharya , Nitin Joshi

Backreactions are considered in a de Sitter spacetime whose cosmological constant is generated by the potential of scalar field. The leading order gravitational effect of nonlinear matter fluctuations is analyzed and it is found that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Losic , W. G. Unruh

We use holography to study dS-invariant states of non-conformal, strongly coupled quantum field theories in four-dimensional de Sitter space. We show that out-of-equilibrium effects can sustain the exponential inflation within the regime of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Lucía Castells-Tiestos , Jéssica Gonçalves , David Mateos

We introduce a second-order stochastic effective theory for light scalar fields in de Sitter spacetime, extending the validity of the stochastic approach beyond the massless limit and demonstrating how it can be used to compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Archie Cable , Arttu Rajantie

We introduce a frame-covariant formalism for inflation of scalar-curvature theories by adopting a differential geometric approach which treats the scalar fields as coordinates living on a field-space manifold. This ensures that our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-09 Sotirios Karamitsos , Apostolos Pilaftsis

We investigate solutions that are dynamically evolving between asymptotically de Sitter and asymptotically anti-de Sitter regions in the context of Einstein gravity coupled to general matter fields in d dimensions. We demonstrate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Hassan Firouzjahi , Frederic Leblond

Using dynamical systems methods, we describe the evolution of a minimally coupled scalar field and a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe in the context of general relativity, which is relevant for inflation and late-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Valerio Faraoni , Charles S. Protheroe

In this paper, we study a particular type of inflation by using non-local Friedman equations that are somehow derived from the zero levels of string field theory and express a tachyonic action. Then, we challenge it by further refining de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan , S. Noori Gashti , İ. Sakallı , M. R. Alipour

We treat a model in which tensor perturbations of de~Sitter spacetime, represented as a spatially flat model, are modified by the effects of the vacuum fluctuations of a massless conformally invariant field, such as the electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-05 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , L. H. Ford , Da-Shin Lee , Hoi-Lai Yu

We consider the classical wave equation with a thermal and Starobinsky-Vilenkin noise which in a slow-roll and long wave approximation describes the quantum fluctuations of the graviton-inflaton system in an expanding metric. We investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Z. Haba

Behaviour of a weekly self-interacting scalar field with a small mass in the de Sitter background is investigated using the stochastic approach (including the case of a double-well interaction potential). Existence of the de Sitter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Alexei A. Starobinsky , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We investigate infrared logarithms in de Sitter space from holographic perspective. We employ a gravitational Fokker-Planck equation to investigate the time evolution of the de Sitter entropy $S=\pi/(G_N H^2)$, where $H$ is the Hubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-30 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

Within the framework of geometric inflation, where the Friedmann equation is modified to incorporate an infinite series of higher curvature corrections, we describe the emergence of a de Sitter inflationary phase near the poles of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-23 Adolfo Cisterna , Nicolas Grandi , Julio Oliva

We study a generality of an inflationary scenario by integrating the Einstein equations numerically in a plane-symmetric spacetime. We consider the inhomogeneous spacetimes due to (i) localized gravitational waves with a positive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Hisa-aki SHINKAI , Kei-ichi MAEDA

We study Brownian motion driven with both conservative and nonconservative external forces. By using the thermodynamic approach of the theory of Brownian motion we obtain the Fokker-Planck equation and derive expressions for the Fluctuation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Perez-Madrid , I. Santamaria-Holek

Heavy scalar fields can undergo an instability during inflation as a result of their kinetic couplings with the inflaton. This is known as the geometrical destabilization of inflation, as it relies on the effect of the negative curvature of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , John Ronayne

We present an explicit cosmological model where inflation and dark energy both could arise from the dynamics of the same scalar field. We present our discussion in the framework where the inflaton field $\phi$ attains a nearly constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ishwaree P. Neupane