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We investigate the observational viability of a class of $\alpha$-attractors inflationary models in light of the most recent Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large-Scale Structure (LSS) data. By considering a double-well potential we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-04 J. G. Rodrigues , S. Santos da Costa , J. S. Alcaniz

In light of the most recent cosmological observations, we provide new updated constraints on the slow-roll inflation in different extended scenarios beyond the $\Lambda\rm{CDM}$ cosmological model. Along with the usual six parameters, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-25 Matteo Forconi , William Giarè , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri

We discuss how initial conditions for cosmological evolution can be defined in Loop Quantum Cosmology with massive scalar field and how the presence of the bounce influences the probability of inflation in this theory, compared with General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-15 Suzana Bedić , Gregory Vereshchagin

An exponential kind of quintessential inflation potential motivated by supergravity is studied. This type belongs to the class of {\alpha}-attractor models. The model was studied for the first time by Dimopoulos and Owen in [J. Cosmol.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-01 Llibert Aresté Saló , David Benisty , Eduardo I. Guendelman , Jaume de Haro

We perform a Bayesian study of a generalization of the basic $\alpha$-attractor T model given by the potential $V(\phi)=V_0\left[1-\text{sech}^{p}\left(\phi/\sqrt{6\alpha}M_{pl}\right)\right]$ where $\phi$ is the inflaton field and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Francisco X. Linares Cedeño , Gabriel German , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Ariadna Montiel

An approach to construct cosmological inflation models on the basis of a certain dependence of the scalar field evolution on the e-folds number is considered. The reconstruction of the model background parameters according to the kind of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Igor V. Fomin , Vladimir L. Glushkov , Evgenii S. Dentsel , Gevorg D. Manucharyan , Vyacheslav A. Sizov

A class of inflation theories called $\alpha$-attractors has been investigated recently with interesting properties interpolating between quadratic potentials, the Starobinsky model, and an attractor limit. Here we examine their use for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-01 Eric V. Linder

The quantum cosmology of the flat Friedmann-Lema{\^i}tre-Robertson-Walker Universe, filled with a scalar field, is considered in the de Broglie-Bohm (dBB) interpretation framework. A stiff-matter quantum bounce solution is obtained. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-24 G. S. Vicente , Rudnei O. Ramos , Vitória N. Magalhães

We investigate a constraint on reheating followed by alpha-attractor-type inflation (the E-model and T-model) from an observation of the spectral index n_s. When the energy density of the universe is dominated by an energy component with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Yoshiki Ueno , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Defining a scale of $k$-modes of the quantum fluctuations during inflation through the dynamical horizon crossing condition $k = aH$ we go from the physical $t$ variable to $k$ variable and solve the equations of cosmological first-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-08 Arunoday Sarkar , Chitrak Sarkar , Buddhadeb Ghosh

We study in detail the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations generated during inflation in loop quantum cosmology (LQC). After clarifying in a novel quantitative way how inverse-volume corrections arise in inhomogeneous settings,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Martin Bojowald , Gianluca Calcagni , Shinji Tsujikawa

Here, the $\alpha$-attractor inflation is investigated within a framework incorporating a minimal measurable length, as implemented by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). The GUP modifications to the Friedmann equations and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Hana Heidarian , Milad Solbi , Soma Heydari , Kayoomars Karami

Recently, several broad classes of inflationary models have been discovered whose cosmological predictions are stable with respect to significant modifications of the inflaton potential. Some classes of models are based on a non-minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-16 Mario Galante , Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Diederik Roest

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

The $\alpha$-attractor models are some of the most interesting models of inflation from the point of view of upcoming observations in cosmology and also attractive from the point of view of supergravity. We confront representative models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Sukannya Bhattacharya , Koushik Dutta , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Anshuman Maharana

We first derive the primordial power spectra, spectral indices and runnings of both scalar and tensor perturbations of a flat inflationary universe to the second-order approximations of the slow-roll parameters, in the framework of loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-25 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Klaus Kirsten , Gerald Cleaver , Qin Sheng , Qiang Wu

We examine the dynamics of a closed cosmology whose matter source is that of a conformally coupled scalar field with a broken ${\rm SO}(1,1)$ symmetry, which correspond to the $\alpha$-attractors proposed by Linde and Kallosh. Following a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 David Sloan , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Sotirios Karamitsos

We study here the observational constraints on single-field inflationary models achievable with the next generation of CMB experiments. We particularly focus on a Stage-IV like experiment and forecasts its constraints on inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Fabrizio Renzi

Inflationary $\alpha$-attractor models in supergravity, which provide excellent fits to the latest observational data, are based on the Poincare disk hyperbolic geometry. We refine these models by constructing Kahler potentials with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-23 John Joseph M. Carrasco , Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde

We analyze the latest cosmic microwave background (CMB) constraints on the scalar spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ from Planck 2018, BICEP/Keck 2018, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 (ACT DR6), and the South…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 John Ellis , Marcos A. G. Garcia , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner