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In this article, we show that a stochastic form of scale-dependent halo bias arises in multi-source inflationary models, where multiple fields determine the initial curvature perturbation. We derive this effect for general non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-14 Daniel Baumann , Simone Ferraro , Daniel Green , Kendrick M. Smith

A matrix representation of the evolution operator associated with a nonlinear stochastic flow with additive noise is used to compute its spectrum. In the weak noise limit a perturbative expansion for the spectrum is formulated in terms of…

We re-examine approximations in the analytical calculation of the primordial spectrum of cosmological perturbation produced during inflation. Taking two inflation models (chaotic inflation and natural inflation) as examples, we numerically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. H. Huang , W. B. Lin , X. M. Zhang

The bispectrum of single-field inflationary trajectories in which the speed of sound of the inflationary trajectories $c_s$ is constant but not equal to the speed of light $c=1$ is explored. The trajectories are generated as random…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-30 Jonathan S. Horner , Carlo R. Contaldi

Physical scenarios, leading to highly energetic stochastic gravitational waves backgrounds (for frequencies ranging from the $\mu$Hz up to the GHz) are examined. In some cases the typical amplitude of the logarithmic energy spectrum can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Massimo Giovannini

We investigate the constant-roll inflation with non-minimally kinetic coupling to the Einstein tensor. With the slow-roll parameter $\eta_\phi = -\ddot{\phi}/(H\dot{\phi})$ being a constant, we calculate the power spectra for scalar and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-22 Jie Liu , Yungui Gong , Zhu Yi

The power spectra of the scalar and tensor perturbations in the noncommutative k-inflation model are calculated in this paper. In this model, all the modes created when the stringy space-time uncertainty relation is satisfied are generated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li , Dao-Jun Liu

We study inflationary dynamics within the framework of fractal cosmology, where space is characterized by an effective non-integer dimension $D$. In our work, fractal effects are sourced through thermodynamic modifications at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Aarav Shah , Paulo Moniz , Maxim Khlopov , Oem Trivedi , Maxim Krasnov

We develop a stochastic description of small-field inflationary histories with a graceful exit in a random potential whose Hessian is a Gaussian random matrix as a model of the unstructured part of the string landscape. The dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-22 Francisco G. Pedro , Alexander Westphal

In the present paper, we aim to generalize the constant-roll inflation in the non-canonical set-up, particularly in the context of scalar Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) theory which has emerged to be prospective candidate for describing inflation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-05 Sayantani Lahiri

Stochastic effects in multi-field inflationary scenarios are investigated. A hierarchy of diffusion equations is derived, the solutions of which yield moments of the numbers of inflationary $e$-folds. Solving the resulting partial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Hooshyar Assadullahi , Hassan Firouzjahi , Mahdiyar Noorbala , Vincent Vennin , David Wands

We consider the spectrum of primordial fluctuations produced by inflationary models where the inflaton potential is the sum of two exponential terms. A wide range of spectra result, with the only constraint being that the scalar spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Richard Easther

Cosmic inflation may exhibit stochastic periods during which quantum fluctuations dominate over the semi-classical evolution. Extracting observables in these regimes is a notoriously difficult program as quantum randomness makes them fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Baptiste Blachier , Christophe Ringeval

We revisit the model of axion inflation in the context of stochastic inflation and investigate the effects of the stochastic noises associated to the electromagnetic fields. Because of the parity violating interaction, one polarization of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Alireza Talebian , Amin Nassiri-Rad , Hassan Firouzjahi

We consider a model of inflation which has recently been proposed in the literature and where inflation is induced by corrections to the energy density coming from the non-commutativity of spacetime. We show that the very rapid inflationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-14 Hideki Perrier , Ruth Durrer , Massimiliano Rinaldi

I describe a recently derived stochastic approach to inflaton dynamics which can address some serious problems associated with conventional inflationary theory. Using this theory I derive an exact solution to the stochastic dynamics for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Andrew Matacz

We show how importance sampling can be used to reconstruct the statistics of rare cosmological fluctuations in stochastic inflation. We have developed a publicly available package, PyFPT, that solves the first-passage time problem of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-27 Joseph H. P. Jackson , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Kazuya Koyama , Vincent Vennin , David Wands

Constant-rate inflation, including ultra-slow-roll as a special case, has been widely applied to the formation of primordial black holes with significant deviation from the standard slow-roll conditions at both the growing and decaying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-15 Kin-Wang Ng , Yi-Peng Wu

We use a numerical code for accurate computation of the amplitude of linear density perturbations and gravitational waves generated by single-field inflation models to study the accuracy of existing analytic results based on the slow-roll…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ian J Grivell , Andrew R Liddle

Understanding when inflationary perturbations become genuinely nonlinear near the horizon crossing requires methods that go beyond both linear perturbation theory and the gradient expansion. In this work, we introduce a nonlinear lattice…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Pankaj Saha , Yuichiro Tada , Yuko Urakawa