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We study the two-field warm inflation models with a double quadratic potential and a linear temperature dependent dissipative coefficient. We derived the evolution equation of all kinds of perturbations without assuming slow-roll…

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For the inflaton perturbations it is shown that the evolution of the difference between the spectral indices can be translated into information on the scale dependence of the tensor to scalar amplitudes ratio, $r$, and how the scalar field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. A. Terrero-Escalante

This article presents a possible inflation scenario as a consequence of non-minimal gravitational couplings in the Conformal Standard Model. The model consists, in comparison to the SM, of additional right-chiral neutrinos and complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-27 Jan Kwapisz , Krzysztof A. Meissner

We develop the formalism necessary to study four-point functions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields. We determine the general form of CMB trispectra, with the constraints imposed by the assumption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Takemi Okamoto , Wayne Hu

Modular inflation is the restriction to two fields of automorphic inflation, a general group based framework for multifield scalar field theories with curved target spaces, which can be parametrized by the comoving curvature perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 Rolf Schimmrigk

We generalize the model of solid inflation to an anisotropic cosmic solid. Barring fine tunings, the observed isotropy of the cosmological background and of the scalar two-point function isolate the icosahedral group as the only possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Jonghee Kang , Alberto Nicolis

We consider the effects of fields with suddenly changing mass on the inflationary power spectra. In this context, when a field becomes light, it will be excited. This process contributes to the tensor power spectrum. We compute these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-17 Daniel Carney , Willy Fischler , Ely D. Kovetz , Dustin Lorshbough , Sonia Paban

In the framework of chaotic inflation we study the case of a massive scalar field using a semiclassical approach. We derive the energy density fluctuations in the infrared sector generated by matter field and gauge-invariant metric…

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In a recent paper [17], we studied the evolution of the background geometry and scalar perturbations in an inflationary, spatially closed Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model having constant positive spatial curvature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Béatrice Bonga , Brajesh Gupt , Nelson Yokomizo

We construct a toy a model which demonstrates that large field single scalar inflation can produce an arbitrarily small scalar to tensor ratio in the window of e-foldings recoverable from CMB experiments. This is done by generalizing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-13 Daniel J. Brooker

We consider light scalar fields during inflation and show how the stochastic spectral expansion method can be used to calculate two-point correlation functions of an arbitrary local function of the field in de Sitter space. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-02 Tommi Markkanen , Arttu Rajantie , Stephen Stopyra , Tommi Tenkanen

The existence of the inflationary era in the early Universe seems to be strongly supported by recent CMB observations. However, only a few realistic inflation scenarios which have close relation to particle physics seem to have been known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-05 Romy H. S. Budhi , Shoichi Kashiwase , Daijiro Suematsu

Multifield models of inflation with nonminimal couplings are in excellent agreement with the recent results from {\it Planck}. Across a broad range of couplings and initial conditions, such models evolve along an effectively single-field…

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We consider inflation with a constant rate of rolling in which a complex scalar field plays the role of inflaton during the inflationary epoch. We implement the inflationary analysis for an accredited angular speed $\dot{\theta}$ which…

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The newly released Planck CMB data place tight constraints on slow-roll inflationary models. Some of commonly discussed inflationary potentials are disfavored due mainly to the large tensor-to-scalar ratio. In this paper we show that these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-05 Peng-Xu Jiang , Jian-Wei Hu , Zong-Kuan Guo

We examine the effect of the thermal vacuum on the power spectrum of inflation by using the thermal field dynamics. We find that the thermal effect influences the CMB anisotropy at large length scale. After removing the divergence by using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Shaoyu Yin , Bin Wang , Ru-Keng Su

A disformal coupling between two scalar fields is considered in the context of cosmological inflation. The coupling introduces novel derivative interactions mixing the kinetic terms of the fields but without introducing superluminal or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-23 Carsten van de Bruck , Tomi Koivisto , Chris Longden

Inflation in a five-dimensional brane world model with two boundary branes is studied. We make use of the moduli space approximation whereby the low energy theory reduces to a four-dimensional biscalar-tensor gravity plus a minimally…

We calculate the primordial spectrum of scalar perturbations of the 3-form inflation and we find that the curvature perturbations decay at late times. As as result, although a non-minimally coupled massive 3-form field may drive inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Cristiano Germani , Alex Kehagias

We investigate expected constraints on the primordial tensor power spectrum from the future cosmic microwave background polarization experiment LiteBIRD as a test of multi-field inflation. We argue that the measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 Ryusuke Jinno , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi , Tomo Takahashi , Masashi Hazumi