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The reconstruction of an inflationary universe in the context of the Galileon model or G-model, considering as attractors the scalar spectral index $n_S(N)$ and the tensor to scalar ratio $r(N)$ as a function of the number of e-folding $N$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Ramon Herrera

The slow-roll approximation is an analytical approach to study dynamical properties of the inflationary universe. In this article, systematic construction of the slow-roll expansion for effective loop quantum cosmology is presented. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Joanna Luc , Jakub Mielczarek

We investigate inflationary dynamics in the framework of the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. In the model under consideration, the inflaton field is non-minimally coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet curvature invariant, so that the latter appears to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva , Mayukh Raj Gangopadhyay , Mohammad Sami , Alexey V. Toporensky , Sergey Yu. Vernov

We describe a broad class of multi-field inflationary models with spontaneously broken conformal invariance. It generalizes the recently discovered class of cosmological attractors with a single inflaton field. In the new multi-field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde

Modified gravity provides a possible explanation for the currently observed cosmic accelaration. In this paper, we study general classes of modified gravity models. The Einstein-Hilbert action is modified by using general functions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antonio De Felice , Pia Mukherjee , Yun Wang

The slow-roll inflation which took place at extremely high energy regimes is in general believed to be sensitive to the high-order curvature corrections to the classical general relativity (GR). In this paper, we study the effects of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-25 Tian-Chen Li , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

Cosmological equations for homogeneous isotropic models filled by scalar fields and ultrarelativistic matter are investigated in the framework of gauge theories of gravity. Regular inflationary cosmological models of flat, closed and open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. V. Minkevich

In this work we study the GW170817-compatible Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theories during the reheating and the end of inflationary era. Given the scalar field potential $V(\phi)$ which can have some intrinsic importance for the theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 V. K. Oikonomou , Pyotr Tsyba , Olga Razina

The effect of including a Gauss-Bonnet contribution in the bulk action is investigated within the context of the steep inflationary scenario. When inflation is driven by an exponential inflaton field, this Gauss-Bonnet term allows the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James E. Lidsey , N. J. Nunes

Inflationary homogeneous isotropic cosmological models filled by scalar fields and ultrarelativistic matter are examined in the framework of gauge theories of gravitation. By using quadratic scalar field potential numerical analysis of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Minkevich , A. S. Garkun

Quantum fluctuations of scalar fields during inflation could determine the very large-scale structure of the universe. In the case of general scalar-tensor gravity theories these fluctuations lead to the diffusion of fundamental constants…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Juan Garcia-Bellido , David Wands

We revisit an extension of the well-known formalism for gauge-invariant scalar metric fluctuations, to study the spectrums for both, the inflaton and gauge invariant (scalar) metric fluctuations in the framework of a single field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Mariano Anabitarte , Mauricio Bellini

The slow-roll inflation for a single scalar field that couples to the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) term represents an important higher-order curvature correction inspired by string theory. With the arrival of the era of precision cosmology, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

We consider the constant-roll condition in the model of the inflaton nonminimal coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet term. By assuming the first Gauss-Bonnet flow parameter $\delta_1$ is a constant, we discuss the constant-roll inflation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 Tie-Jun Gao

We consider the Gauss-Bonnet term coupled to the inflaton in the Palatini formulation of gravity. Unlike in the metric formulation, the Gauss-Bonnet term is not always a total derivative. We solve for the connection and insert it into the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Ali Hassan , Syksy Rasanen

We study the inflationary phenomenology of a non-minimally coupled Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory, in the presence of a scalar potential, under the condition that the gravitational wave speed of the primordial gravitational waves is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , F. P. Fronimos

The inflationary attractor properties of the canonical scalar field and Born-Infeld field are investigated in the Randall-Sundrum II scenario with a Gauss-Bonnet term in the bulk action. We find that the inflationary attractor property will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xin-He Meng , Peng Wang

The aim of this paper is to explore warm inflation in the background of $f(\mathcal{G})$ theory of gravity using scalar fields for the FRW universe model. We construct the field equations under slow-roll approximations and evaluate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 M. Sharif , Ayesha Ikram

We consider the stochastic gravitational wave background induced by arbitrary source fields that are amplified during cosmological inflation. The associated tensor spectral index is shown to be given, under minimal assumptions, by a simple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Martin Teuscher , Ruth Durrer , Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau

We investigate in detail the attractor behavior of some inflationary models based on braneworld dynamics under the constant-roll condition. We describe the dynamics of the models, assuming that the second slow-roll parameter remains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Goran S. Djordjevic , Neven Bilić , Dragoljub D. Dimitrijevic , Milan Milosevic , Marko Stojanovic