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In this paper, we investigate models where a scalar field driving inflation is minimally coupled with gravity and it is subjected to a scalar potential. We present several examples of coupling between the field and gravity, and we furnish…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-01 Shynaray Myrzakul , Ratbay Myrzakulov , Lorenzo Sebastiani

For axions present during inflation, it has been shown that a non-minimal coupling $\xi_\sigma$ of the inflaton to gravity worsens isocurvature bounds, while a non-minimal coupling $\xi_\rho$ of the radial Peccei-Quinn field can alleviate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Claire Rigouzzo , Sebastian Zell

We study the dynamics of inflation in a generalized scalar-torsion gravity scenario by assuming a canonical scalar field non-minimally coupled to torsion with a Galileon-type self-interaction. After obtaining the field equations for a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-26 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Giovanni Otalora , Nelson Videla , Joel Saavedra

We study a new anisotropic inflation model, with an inflaton field nonminimally coupled with the gravity and a vector field. We find that the anisotropic attractor solution exists not only in the weak curvature coupling limit, but more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Bin Chen , Zhuang-wei Jin

The natural inflation model with a periodic cosine potential is ruled out by recent Planck 2018 data for the decay constant $f \lesssim 5.5~M_{\rm Pl}$. If the Planck data is combined with the BICEP Keck array and BAO data, the model is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Khursid Alam , Koushik Dutta , Nur Jaman

The inflation model with non-minimal coupling scalar field in the context of the hybrid metric Palatini is studied in this paper. We derive the Einstein's field equations, the equations of motion of the scalar field. Furthermore,the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-29 Brahim Asfour , Aatifa Bargach , Ahmed Errahmani , Taoufik Ouali

We consider the non-supersymmetric models of chaotic (driven by a quadratic potential) and hybrid inflation, taking into account the minimal possible radiative corrections to the inflationary potential. We show that two simple coupling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 C. Pallis

We show that a non-minimal coupling to gravity can not only make some inflationary models consistent with cosmological data, similar to the case of Higgs inflation, but can also invoke slow-roll violation to realize graceful exit from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Tomo Takahashi , Tommi Tenkanen , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We study non-minimal Coleman-Weinberg inflation in the Palatini formulation of gravity in the presence of an $R^2$ term. The Planck scale is dynamically generated by the vacuum expectation value of the inflaton via its non-minimal coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-20 Ioannis D. Gialamas , Alexandros Karam , Antonio Racioppi

We show how we can implement chaotic inflation in the context of supergravity by conveniently selecting the functional form of a strong enough non-minimal coupling between the inflaton and the Ricci scalar curvature. The procedure can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-12 C. Pallis

We investigate the predictions of inflation models with a non-minimal coupling to gravity for inflationary observables such as the spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio in a general setting. We argue that, depending on the relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Tatsuki Kodama , Tomo Takahashi

The non-minimal coupling of a scalar field to the Ricci curvature in a curved spacetime is unavoidable according to several authors. The coupling constant is not a free parameter: the prescriptions for the value of the coupling constant in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Valerio Faraoni

Nonminimal coupling between the inflaton and the Ricci scalar plays a crucial role in shaping the predictions of single-field inflationary models. While a quartic potential with such coupling represents one of the simplest realizations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Waqas Ahmed , Mansoor Ur Rehman

In this work, for the first time in literature, we study the predictions of non-minimally coupled Natural and Coleman-Weinberg potentials in the $n_s-r$ plane, and an extended $\Lambda$CDM model where we include non-standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Nilay Bostan , Shouvik Roy Choudhury

Natural inflation is a good fit to all cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and may be the correct description of an early inflationary expansion of the Universe. The large angular scale CMB polarization experiment BICEP2 has announced a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Katherine Freese , William H. Kinney

The slow-roll approximation to inflation is ultimately justified by the presence of inflationary attractors for the orbits of the solutions of the dynamical equations in phase space. There are many indications that the inflaton field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Valerio Faraoni

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

This study examines how inflationary dynamics are affected by $f(R)$ theories with a non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature. Both positive and negative corrections to the minimal coupling of General Relativity are considered, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Miguel Barroso Varela , Orfeu Bertolami , Andreas Mantziris

We study inflationary scenarios driven by a scalar field in the presence of a non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature. We show that the Friedmann equation can be significantly modified when the energy density during inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Cláudio Gomes , João G. Rosa , Orfeu Bertolami

This paper is aimed to study the compelling issue of cosmic inflation during rapid oscillations using the framework of non-minimal derivative coupling. To this end, an anisotropic and homogeneous Bianchi I background is considered. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-29 Rabia Saleem