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Inflation is now an accepted paradigm in standard cosmology, with its predictions consistent with observations of the cosmic microwave background. It lacks, however, a firm physical theory, with many possible theoretical origins beyond the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-16 Nishant Agarwal , Rachel Bean

We review recent developments in the theory of inflation and cosmological perturbations produced from inflation. After a brief introduction of the standard, single-field slow-roll inflation, and the curvature and tensor perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-31 Misao Sasaki

The purpose of these lectures is to give a pedagogical introduction to inflation and the production of primordial perturbations, as well as a review of some of the latest developments in this domain. After a short introduction, we review…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 David Langlois

We investigate two classes of models of quintessential inflation, based upon canonical as well as noncanonical scalar fields. In particular, introducing potentials steeper than the standard exponential, we construct models that can give…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-17 Chao-Qiang Geng , Md. Wali Hossain , R. Myrzakulov , M. Sami , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We revisit inflation with non-canonical scalar fields by applying deformed-steepness exponential potentials. We show that the resulting scenario can lead to inflationary observables, and in particular to scalar spectral index and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 Smaragda Lola , Andreas Lymperis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Single field inflationary models are investigated within Palatini quadratic gravity represented by $R+\alpha R^2$ along with a non-minimal coupling of the form $f(\phi) R$ between the inflaton field $\phi$ and the gravity. The treatment is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Mahmoud AlHallak

In this work we generalize a previously developed semiclassical approach to inflation, devoted to the analysis of the effective dynamics of coarse-grained fields, which are essential to the stochastic approach to inflation. We consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 H. Casini , R. Montemayor , P. Sisterna

An intermediate inflationary universe model within the context of non-minimally coupled to the scalar curvature is analyzed. We will conduct our analysis under the slow roll approximation of the inflationary dynamics and the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-12 Carlos Gonzalez , Ramon Herrera

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 review inflationary cosmology in modified gravity such as $R^2$ gravity with its extensions in order to generalize the Starobinsky inflation model. In particular, we explore inflation realized by three kinds of effects: modification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 Kazuharu Bamba , Sergei D. Odintsov

This paper revisits the Inflationary scenario within the framework of scalar field models possessing a non-canonical kinetic term. We obtain closed form solutions for all essential quantities associated with chaotic inflation including slow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-03 Sanil Unnikrishnan , Varun Sahni , Aleksey Toporensky

We systematically review some standard issues and also the latest developments of modified gravity in cosmology, emphasizing on inflation, bouncing cosmology and late-time acceleration era. Particularly, we present the formalism of standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-25 S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

Recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) indicate that a successful theory of cosmological inflation needs to have flat potential of the inflaton scalar field. Realizing the inflaton to be a pseudo-Nambu Goldstone boson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Sukannya Bhattacharya , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay

In [arXiv:1102.1513] we introduced an inflationary scenario, Non-Abelian Gauge Field Inflation or gauge-flation for short, in which slow-roll inflation is driven by non-Abelian gauge field minimally coupled to gravity. We present a more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 A. Maleknejad , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We investigate the dynamics of homogeneous phase space for single-field models of inflation. Inflationary trajectories are formally attractors in phase space, but since in practice not all initial conditions lead to them, some degree of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Paul Franche , Rhiannon Gwyn , Bret Underwood , Alisha Wissanji

We study a class of non-local, action-based, and purely gravitational models. These models seek to describe a cosmology in which inflation is driven by a large, bare cosmological constant that is screened by the self-gravitation between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

In this paper we investigate the asymptotic dynamics of inflationary cosmological models that are based in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Our main aim is to explore the global structure of the phase space in the framework of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Israel Quiros , Tame Gonzalez , Roberto De Arcia , Ricardo García-Salcedo , Ulises Nucamendi , Joel F. Saavedra

We present a unified treatment of cosmic inflation within the framework of Myrzakulov Gravity, exploring its realization in three different formalisms: metric (curvature-based), teleparallel (torsion-based), and symmetric teleparallel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

Since the standard inflationary paradigm is based on quantum field theory on classical space-times, it excludes the Planck era. Using techniques from loop quantum gravity, the paradigm is extended to a self-consistent theory from the Planck…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

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