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We analyse the post-inflationary contribution to the stochastic gravitational wave background due to a resonant feature in the scalar power spectrum, which is characterised by an oscillation in $\log(k)$, complementing our previous work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Lukas T. Witkowski

We investigate the impact of inhomogeneous inflaton perturbations on primordial magnetic fields within the framework of generalized inflationary magnetogenesis models. Extending the Ratra model to general spacetime backgrounds, we analyze…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Yu Li , Shuang Liu , Hang Wang , Yao-Chuan Wang

We study the effects of ultralight vector field (ULVF) dark matter on gravitational-wave propagation. We find that the coherent oscillations of the vector field induce an anisotropic suppression of the gravitational-wave amplitude as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Alfredo D. Miravet , Antonio L. Maroto

The possibility of reconstructing the whole history of the scale factor of the Universe from the power spectrum of relic gravitational waves (RGWs) makes the study of these waves quite interesting. First, we explore the impact of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 German Izquierdo

A large class of quintessential inflationary models, recently proposed by Peebles and Vilenkin, leads to post-inflationary phases whose effective equation of state is stiffer than radiation. The expected gravitational waves logarithmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Massimo Giovannini

We study both the background evolution and cosmological perturbations of anisotropic inflationary models supported by coupled scalar and vector fields. The models we study preserve the U(1) gauge symmetry associated with the vector field,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-29 Burak Himmetoglu

A stochastic background of relic gravitational waves is achieved by the so called adiabatically-amplified zero-point fluctuations process derived from early inflation. It provides a distinctive spectrum of relic gravitational waves. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-05 Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Salvatore Capozziello

We compute the abundance of cosmological gravitational waves produced during the evolution of an ultralight vector (spin-1) dark matter field. A homogeneous background vector field breaks spatial isotropy, requiring a Bianchi I geometry and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Tomás Ferreira Chase , Diana López Nacir

This work continues the research presented in the article [1], where we estimate the Gertsenshtein effect's influence on the long-wavelength part of relic gravitational wave spectrum. Here, the differential equation system for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 L. A. Panasenko , A. O. Chetverikov

We present a general and unified formulation which can handle the classical evolution and quantum generation processes of the cosmological gravitational wave in a broad class of generalized gravity theories. Applications are made in several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Hwang

The breaking of an approximate discrete symmetry, the final stages of a first order phase transition, or a post-inflationary biased probability distribution for scalar fields are possible cosmological scenarios characterized by the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marcelo Gleiser , Ronald Roberts

In conformally flat background geometries the long wavelength gravitons can be described in the fluid approximation and they induce scalar fluctuations both during inflation and in the subsequent radiation-dominated epoch. While this effect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Massimo Giovannini

We identify a characteristic pattern in the scalar-induced stochastic gravitational wave background from particle production during inflation. If particle production is sufficiently efficient, the scalar power spectrum exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Lukas T. Witkowski

We study the inflationary gravitational wave background induced by Abelian gauge fields generated by non-minimal kinetic and axial couplings to the inflaton. We show that, up to slow-roll corrections, for coupling functions that share the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Martin Teuscher , Ruth Durrer , Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau

Energy injection into the early universe can induce turbulent motions of the primordial plasma, which in turn act as a source for gravitational radiation. Earlier work computed the amplitude and characteristic frequency of the relic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-29 Grigol Gogoberidze , Tina Kahniashvili , Arthur Kosowsky

We calculate the gravitational waves (GW) spectrum produced in various Early Universe scenarios from gauge field sources, thus generalizing earlier inflationary calculations to bouncing cosmologies. We consider generic couplings between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ido Ben-Dayan

In the very early Universe matter can be described as a conformal invariant ultra-relativistic perfect fluid, which does not contribute, on classical level, to the evolution of the isotropic and homogeneous metric. However, in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Fabris , A. M. Pelinson , I. L. Shapiro

We consider the effects of the quantum stress tensor fluctuations of a conformal field in generating gravity waves in inflationary models. We find a non-scale invariant, non-Gaussian contribution which depends upon the total expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-08 Chun-Hsien Wu , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , L. H. Ford , Kin-Wang Ng

The combination of non-minimal couplings to gravity with the post-inflationary kinetic-dominated era typically appearing in quintessential inflation scenarios may lead to the spontaneous symmetry breaking of internal symmetries and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-18 Dario Bettoni , Guillem Domènech , Javier Rubio

We discuss gravitational waves (GWs) induced by a heavy spectator field that starts to oscillate during inflation. During the oscillation of the spectator field, its effective mass can also oscillate in some potentials. This mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Keisuke Inomata