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We study cosmological self-reproduction in models of inflation driven by a scalar field $\phi$ with a noncanonical kinetic term ($k$-inflation). We develop a general criterion for the existence of attractors and establish conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ferdinand Helmer , Sergei Winitzki

In the present article we showcase how the reheating era can be described properly in the context of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity assuming that the primordial gravitational waves propagate with the velocity of light. The equations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-02 S. A. Venikoudis , F. P. Fronimos

In the present paper, we perform a sub-Planckian quantum mode analysis of linear cosmological perturbation in the inflaton field over a classical quasi de-Siter metric background by dynamical horizon exit (DHE) method. In this way, we probe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-05 Arunoday Sarkar , Buddhadeb Ghosh

We eliminate the parameters originally present in models of inflation of the $\alpha$-attractor type in favor of the scalar spectral index $n_s$ and the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. We then write expressions for the number of $e$-folds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Gabriel German

In this study, we precisely evaluated the feasibility of the chaotic inflation model within a non-canonical kinetic framework. By applying the slow-roll approximation and imposing constraints on the equilateral non-Gaussianity $f_{\rm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Wei Yang , Chen-Hao Wu , Ya-Peng Hu

The most current observational data corroborate the Starobinsky model as one of the strongest candidates in the description of an inflationary regime. Motivated by such success, extensions of the Starobinsky model have been increasingly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 G. Rodrigues-da-Silva , J. Bezerra-Sobrinho , L. G. Medeiros

Protecting the inflationary potential from quantum corrections typically requires symmetries that constrain the form of couplings of the inflaton to other sectors. We will explore how these restrictions affect reheating in models with UV…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Green

We extend the k-inflation which is a type of kinetically driven inflationary model under the standard inflationary scenario to a possible warm inflationary scenario. The dynamical equations of this warm k-inflation model are obtained. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-06 Zhi-Peng Peng , Jia-Ning Yu , Xiao-Min Zhang , Jian-Yang Zhu

In this work we consider a DBI Galileon (DBIG) inflationary model and constrain its parameter space with the Planck 2015 and BICEP2/Keck array and Planck (BKP) joint analysis data by means of a potential independent analysis. We focus our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 K. Sravan Kumar , Juan C. Bueno Sanchez , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Joao Marto , Paulo Vargas Moniz

We consider a supersymmetric hybrid inflation scenario in which the U(1) $R$-symmetry is explicitly broken by Planck scale suppressed operators in the superpotential. We provide an example with minimal K\"ahler potential, with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Matthew Civiletti , Mansoor Ur Rehman , Eric Sabo , Qaisar Shafi , Joshua Wickman

Recently, a combined model of the primordial inflation and the present cosmic acceleration has been proposed in the context of f(R) gravity. This model is composed of the late-time acceleration term and an R2 term, which enables the model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Hayato Motohashi

We study a new class of inflation model parametrized by the Hubble radius, such that $aH\propto \exp(-k\phi^n)$. These potentials are plateau-like, and reduce to the power-law potentials in the simplest case $n=2$. We investigate the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-20 Siri Chongchitnan

We present novel realizations of E-model inflation within Supergravity which are largely associated with the existence of a pole of order one in the kinetic term of the (gauge-singlet) inflaton superfield. This pole arises due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 C. Pallis

We analyze in detail the perturbative decay of the inflaton oscillating about a generic form of its potential $V(\phi) = \phi^k$, taking into account the effects of non-instantaneous reheating. We show that evolution of the temperature as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Kunio Kaneta , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive

Recent measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), combined with Planck and DESI data, suggest a higher value for the spectral index $n_s$. This places Starobinsky inflation at the edge of the $2\sigma$ constraints for a number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Manuel Drees , Yong Xu

We investigate in some quantitative details the viability of reheating in multi-throat brane inflationary scenarios by estimating and comparing the time scales for the various processes involved. We also calculate within perturbative string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Diego Chialva , Gary Shiu , Bret Underwood

We propose a scenario where preheating occurs for a specific duration that is parametrized by an e-folds number $N_{pre}$, our results suggest a direct correlation between the preheating duration and the density of gravitational waves (GWs)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 K. El Bourakadi , Z. Sakhi , M. Bennai

Reheating is a transition era after the end of inflation, during which the inflaton is converted into the particles that populate the Universe at later times. No direct cosmological observables are normally traceable to this period of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jessica L. Cook , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Damien A. Easson , Lawrence M. Krauss

We investigate how inflation model selection is affected by the presence of additional free-streaming relativistic degrees of freedom, i.e. dark radiation. We perform a full Bayesian analysis of both inflation parameters and cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-07 Thomas Tram , Robert Vallance , Vincent Vennin

We investigate a possibility of reheating in a scenario of D-brane inflation in a warped deformed conifold background which includes perturbative corrections to throat geometry sourced by chiral operator of dimension 3/2 in the CFT. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 Sudhakar Panda , M. Sami , I. Thongkool