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We investigate the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) for cosmological models in the Horndeski theory of gravity. The cosmological models of our interest incorporate the derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-20 Pisin Chen , Seoktae Koh , Gansukh Tumurtushaa

Gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar curvature fluctuations are an important source of the cosmological GW background and a crucial counterpart of the primordial black hole scenario. However, doubts have been cast on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Guillem Domènech , Misao Sasaki

This thesis focuses on gravitational waves (GWs) that arise beyond linear order in cosmological perturbation theory. In recent years, scalar-induced GWs have attracted significant attention because they may serve as the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Raphael Picard

We study gravitational waves induced by scalar primordial fluctuations in Gleyzes-Langlois-Piazza-Vernizzi (GLPV), beyond Horndeski, scalar-tensor theories. We uncover, at the level of the action, a new scalar-scalar-tensor interaction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Guillem Domènech , Alexander Ganz , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Masahide Yamaguchi

We investigate the propagation of primordial gravitational waves within the context of the Horndeski theories, for this, we present a generalized transfer function quantifying the sub-horizon evolution of gravitational waves modes after…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-16 Rafael C. Nunes , Marcio E. S. Alves , Jose C. N. de Araujo

The scalar induced gravitational waves are produced from primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbations. We constrain the fractional energy density of scalar induced gravitational waves from gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-07 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

We identify analytically a multiple-peak structure in the energy-density spectrum of induced gravitational waves (GWs) generated at second-order from a primordial scalar perturbations also with multiple($n$) peaks at small scales $k_{*i}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 Rong-Gen Cai , Shi Pi , Shao-Jiang Wang , Xing-Yu Yang

The stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background is secondarily and inevitably induced by the primordial curvature perturbations beyond the first order of the cosmological perturbation theory. We analytically calculate the integration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Takahiro Terada

We study the induced primordial gravitational waves (GW) coming from the effect of scalar perturbation on the tensor perturbation at the second order of cosmological perturbation theory. We use the evolution of the standard model degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Fazlollah Hajkarim , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Whether or not the primordial gravitational wave (GW) produced during inflation is sufficiently strong to be observable, GWs are necessarily produced from the primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

We study the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background induced by the primordial scalar perturbation with the spectrum having a lognormal peak of width $\Delta$ at $k=k_*$. We derive an analytical formula for the GW spectrum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

Scalar induced gravitational waves contribute to the cosmological gravitational wave background. They can be related to the primordial density power spectrum produced towards the end of inflation and therefore are a convenient new tool to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Raphael Picard , Karim A. Malik

We derive the complete spectrum of gravitational waves induced by primordial scalar perturbations ranging over all observable wavelengths. This scalar-induced contribution can be computed directly from the observed scalar perturbations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Baumann , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Paul J. Steinhardt , Keitaro Takahashi

Standard perturbative calculations of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) have neglected nonperturbative effects in the large-amplitude regime. We develop a hybrid numerical framework to signify nonperturbative effects on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Zhuan Ning , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Xiang-Xi Zeng , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang

Gravitational waves (GWs) have opened a new window on fundamental physics in a number of important ways. The next generation of GW detectors may reveal more information about the polarization structure of GWs. Additionally, there is growing…

Primordial gravitational waves on small scales are not tightly constrained by current cosmological observations, which allows for the possibility of large amplitudes at small scales. We investigate second-order tensor induced gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Fei-Yu Chen , Jing-Zhi Zhou , Di Wu , Zhi-Chao Li , Peng-Yu Wu

Gravitational waves (GWs) induced by primordial fluctuations can be affected by the modification of the sound speed $c^2_{\rm s}$ and the equation of state parameter $w$ once the curvature fluctuations reenter the cosmological horizon. That…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Albert Escrivà , Yuichiro Tada , Chul-Moon Yoo

Cosmological stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) induced by a spectator field are usually expected to have an amplitude very small compared with those generated by the curvature perturbation, or equivalently by a field dominating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Mohammad Ali Gorji , Misao Sasaki

Compared to primordial perturbations on large scales, roughly larger than $1$ megaparsec, those on smaller scales are not severely constrained. We revisit the issue of probing small-scale primordial perturbations using gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Keisuke Inomata , Tomohiro Nakama

This paper explores the physics of second-order gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar-tensor perturbation interactions in the radiation-dominated Universe. We investigate the distinctive signatures of these GWs and their detectability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Pritha Bari , Nicola Bartolo , Guillem Domènech , Sabino Matarrese
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