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We investigate the constant-roll inflation with non-minimally kinetic coupling to the Einstein tensor. With the slow-roll parameter $\eta_\phi = -\ddot{\phi}/(H\dot{\phi})$ being a constant, we calculate the power spectra for scalar and…

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The recently released data by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations present strong evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background. Assuming this signal originates from scalar-induced gravitational waves,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Lang Liu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

The gravitationally enhanced friction can reduce the speed of the inflaton to realize an ultra-slow-roll inflation, which will amplify the curvature perturbations. The amplified perturbations can generate a sizable amount of primordial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 Li-Yang Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

We reconsider an inflationary model that inflaton field is non-minimally coupled to gravity. We study parameter space of the model up to the second ( and in some cases third ) order of the slow-roll parameters. We calculate inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Kourosh Nozari , S. Shafizadeh

It is a longstanding desire of cosmologists, and particle physicists as well, to connect inflation to low energy physics, culminating, for instance, in what is known as Higgs inflation. The condition for the standard Higgs boson playing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-15 J. G. Ferreira , C. A. de S. Pires , J. G. Rodrigues , P. S. Rodrigues da Silva

We discuss how primordial non-Gaussianity of the curvature perturbation helps to constrain models of the early universe. Observations are consistent with Gaussian initial conditions, compatible with the predictions of the simplest models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-26 Christian T. Byrnes

We show that a conformal-invariance violating coupling of the inflaton to electromagnetism produces a cross correlation between curvature fluctuations and a spectrum of primordial magnetic fields. According to this model, in the case of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Leonardo Motta , Robert R. Caldwell

We study the inflationary phenomenology of a non-minimally coupled Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory, in the presence of a scalar potential, under the condition that the gravitational wave speed of the primordial gravitational waves is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , F. P. Fronimos

We investigate the non-Gaussianities of inflation driven by a single scalar field coupling non-minimally to the Einstein Gravity. We assume that the form of the scalar field is very general with an arbitrary sound speed. For convenience to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-27 Taotao Qiu , Kwei-Chou Yang

We study cosmological evolution after inflation in models with non-minimal derivative coupling to gravity. The background dynamics is solved and particle production associated with rapidly oscillating Hubble parameter is studied in detail.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

In a variety of inflation models the motion of the inflaton may trigger the production of some non-inflaton particles during inflation, for example via parametric resonance or a phase transition. Particle production during inflation leads…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Neil Barnaby , Zhiqi Huang

Building on the recent lattice simulations of ultra-slow-roll (USR) dynamics presented in arXiv:2410.23942, we investigate the role of the nonlinear relation between the inflaton field configuration and the curvature perturbation $\zeta$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Angelo Caravano , Gabriele Franciolini , Sébastien Renaux-Petel

In the light of the new observational results we discuss the status of the exponential potentials driving inflation. We depart form the minimal scenario and study an inflaton kinetically coupled to the Einstein tensor. We find that in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-05 Iannis Dalianis , Fotis Farakos

We construct an inflation model with inflaton non-minimally coupled to gravity on a warped DGP brane. Using an exponential potential, we calculate scalar power spectrum, spectral index and the running of the spectral index. We show that for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-11 Kourosh Nozari , Behnaz Fazlpour

The inflation model with non-minimal coupling scalar field in the context of the hybrid metric Palatini is studied in this paper. We derive the Einstein's field equations, the equations of motion of the scalar field. Furthermore,the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-29 Brahim Asfour , Aatifa Bargach , Ahmed Errahmani , Taoufik Ouali

We discuss non-minimal quadratic inflation in supersymmetric (SUSY) and non-SUSY models which entails a linear coupling of the inflaton to gravity. Imposing a lower bound on the parameter cR, involved in the coupling between the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-31 Constantinos Pallis , Qaisar Shafi

We study the inflation scenario with the non-minimally derivative coupling $XR^{(3)}$, where $X=\nabla_\mu\phi \nabla^\mu\phi$, $\phi$ is the inflaton and $R^{(3)}$ is the 3-dimensional intrinsic Ricci scalar on the spacelike hypersurface,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Yan-Li He , Yun-Song Piao

We propose a new single field inflation model in which the usual slow-roll inflation is joined to a new period of slow-climb and slow-roll inflation through a short intermediate non-inflationary phase. We then show that primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We compute the three-point cross-correlation function of the primordial curvature perturbation generated during inflation with two powers of a vector field in a model where conformal invariance is broken by a direct coupling of the vector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-08 Rajeev Kumar Jain , Martin S. Sloth

We investigate the predictions of inflation models with a non-minimal coupling to gravity for inflationary observables such as the spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio in a general setting. We argue that, depending on the relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Tatsuki Kodama , Tomo Takahashi