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Recent observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) indicate a moderate upward shift in the scalar spectral index $n_s$ compared to Planck $2018$, thereby placing tighter constraints on inflationary scenarios. Motivated by these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Li-Yang Chen , Rongrong Zha , Feng-Yi Zhang

In this paper, we apply reconstruction techniques to recover the potential parameters for a particular class of single-field models, the $\alpha$-attractor (supergravity) models of inflation. This also allows to derive the inflaton vacuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-28 A. Di Marco , P. Cabella , N. Vittorio

The reconstruction of a k-essence inflationary universe, considering the unification between the swampland criteria and the attractor given by the scalar spectral index $n_S(N)$ together with the slow roll parameter $\epsilon(N)$in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-01 Ramon Herrera

We draw attention to the possibility that inflation (i.e. accelerated expansion) might continue after the end of slow roll, during a period of fast oscillations of the inflaton field \phi . This phenomenon takes place when a mild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Thibault Damour , Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov

In this paper we constrain some aspects of the general postinflationary phase in the context of superconformal $\alpha$-attractor models of inflation. In particular, we provide constraints on the duration of the reheating process,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Alessandro Di Marco , Paolo Cabella , Nicola Vittorio

We present an explicit cosmological model where inflation and dark energy both could arise from the dynamics of the same scalar field. We present our discussion in the framework where the inflaton field $\phi$ attains a nearly constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ishwaree P. Neupane

Analyses of inflation models are usually conducted assuming a specific range---e.g., $N_k \simeq 50-60$--of the number $N_k$ of $e$-folds of inflation. However, the analysis can also be performed by taking into account constraints imposed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Lingyuan Ji , Marc Kamionkowski

Evidence from the BICEP2 experiment for a significant gravitational-wave background has focussed attention on inflaton potentials $V(\phi) \propto \phi^\alpha$ with $\alpha=2$ ("chaotic" or "$m^2\phi^2$" inflation) or with smaller values of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski , Junpu Wang

We consider the reconstruction technique in theories with a single or multiple (phantom and/or canonical) scalar fields. With the help of several examples, it is demonstrated explicitly that the universe expansion history, unifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Emilio Elizalde , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Diego Sáez-Gómez , Valerio Faraoni

In this work we construct a bottom-up reconstruction technique for Loop Quantum Cosmology scalar-tensor theories, from the observational indices. Particularly, the reconstruction technique is based on fixing the functional form of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-02 Jaume de Haro , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

We study $\alpha$-attractor models with both E-model and T-model potential in an extended Non-Minimal Derivative (NMD) inflation where a canonical scalar field and its derivatives are non-minimally coupled to gravity. We calculate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-19 Raheleh Shojaee , Kourosh Nozari , Farhad Darabi

We investigate inflationary models in f(R,T) modified gravity with a kinetic coupling term \omega^2 G^{\mu\nu}\partial_{\mu}\phi\partial_{\nu}\phi having a positive factor needed to remove the ghosts. Taking f(R,T)=R+2\beta T, we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 A. Belhaj , M. Benali , Y. Hassouni , M. Lamaaoune

This paper discusses a simple procedure to reconstruct f (R)-gravity models from exact cosmological solutions of the Einstein field equations with a noninteracting classical scalar field-and-radiation background. From the kind of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-15 Heba Sami , Joseph Ntahompagaze , Amare Abebe

We investigate warm intermediate scenario of the cosmological inflation in $F(T)$ gravity in the limit of high dissipation. The inflationary expansion is driven by the scalar inflaton while the gravitational dynamics follow from the $F(T)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-09 Mubasher Jamil , Davood Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

The potential $V(\phi)=\lambda \phi^{n}$ is responsible for the inflation of the universe as scalar field $\phi$ oscillates quickly around some point where $V(\phi)$ has a minimum. The end of this stage has an important role on the further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 B. Ghayour

The aim of this paper is to explore warm inflation in the background of $f(\mathcal{G})$ theory of gravity using scalar fields for the FRW universe model. We construct the field equations under slow-roll approximations and evaluate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 M. Sharif , Ayesha Ikram

We discuss inflaton decays and reheating in no-scale Starobinsky-like models of inflation, calculating the effective equation-of-state parameter, $w$, during the epoch of inflaton decay, the reheating temperature, $T_{\rm reh}$, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-06 John Ellis , Marcos A. G. Garcia , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos , Keith A. Olive

Using the latest observational data, we constrain the inflationary dynamics and the subsequent reheating epoch. Predictions for both phases can be significantly improved by employing numerically computed results compared to the slow-roll…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Ying-Ying Ye , Bao-Min Gu

In this work, we study the early universe inflation and the post-inflation reheating era employing an inverse tangent potential of the form $V=V_0 \cdot[tan^{-1}(\frac{\kappa \phi}{m_p})]^2$, where $\kappa$ is a free parameter of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Mayur Abhisheki , Prasanta Kumar Das

We shall investigate the inflation for the D-brane model, motivated by the modified gravity $F(\phi,T)$. This gravity has been recently introduced in the literature. The feasibility of the D-brane inflation theory in the $F(\phi,T)$-gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Feyzollah Younesizadeh , Davoud Kamani