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Loop corrections to primordial correlation functions are unavoidable due to the non-linear nature of gravity. Previous works have established a robust framework for computing the renormalised one-loop power spectra of scalar and tensor…

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Inflationary perturbations in multi-field theories can exhibit a transient tachyonic instability as a consequence of their non-trivial motion in the internal field space. When an effective single-field description is applicable, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Sebastian Garcia-Saenz , Sébastien Renaux-Petel

We study inflation in scalar-tensor perturbative quantum gravity driven by a one-loop effective potential. We consider effective potentials generated by three models. The first model describes a single scalar field with a non-vanishing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-18 A. Arbuzov , D. Kuznetsov , B. Latosh , V. Shmidt

Motivated by trans-Planckian issues in inflation, we determine the Hilbert space and amplitudes of quantum perturbations in the general low-energy effective theory of (multi-)field inflation without relying on the sub-horizon limit. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Andrea Ambrosi de Magistris , Alberto Salvio

We provide a compact and unified treatment of power spectrum observables for the effective field theory (EFT) of inflation with the complete set of operators that lead to second-order equations of motion in metric perturbations in both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-15 Hayato Motohashi , Wayne Hu

In the previous paper [arXiv:2210.10435], the nonlinear perturbation theory of cosmological density field is generalized to include the tensor-valued bias of astronomical objects, such as spins and shapes of galaxies and any other tensors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Takahiko Matsubara

We present a consistent one-loop calculation for the inflationary tensor power spectrum in the presence of an excited spectator scalar field using the in-in formalism. We find that the super-horizon primordial power spectrum of the tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Atsuhisa Ota , Misao Sasaki , Yi Wang

Loop corrections to observables in slow-roll inflation are found to diverge no worse than powers of the log of the scale factor, extending Weinberg's theorem to quasi-single field inflation models. Demanding perturbation theory be valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-01 Klaus Larjo , David A. Lowe

We investigate radiative corrections to the inflaton potential from heavy fields undergoing a fast-roll phase transition. We find that a logarithmic one-loop correction to the inflaton potential involving this field can induce a temporary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Rajeev Kumar Jain , McCullen Sandora , Martin S. Sloth

Scalar field with non-minimal coupling to curvature scalar is studied in Robertson-Walker background. The infrared limit of two point function, and, in turn, of the energy-momentum tensor of scalar field have been considered in the power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-16 Amit Kundu , Prasenjit Paul

The effective approach is applied to the analysis of inflationary magnetogenesis. Rather than assuming a particular underlying description, all the generally covariant terms potentially appearing with four space-time derivatives in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-15 Massimo Giovannini

Slow-roll inflation is studied as an effective field theory.We find as consistent form of the inflaton potential V(phi)=N M^4 w(phi/[sqrt{N}M_P]) where phi is the inflaton field, M the inflation energy scale, M_P the Planck mass, and N~50…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

We study non-linear contributions to the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation on super-horizon scales, produced during slow-roll inflation driven by a canonical single scalar field. We find that on large scales the linear power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Hyerim Noh , Jai-chan Hwang

We perform a thorough computation of the one-loop corrections from both scalar and tensor degrees of freedom to the power spectrum of curvature fluctuations for non-canonical Lagrangians in single-field inflation. We consider models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Nicola Bartolo , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Alberto Vallinotto

We obtain the effective inflaton potential during slow roll inflation by including the one loop quantum corrections to the energy momentum tensor from scalar curvature and tensor perturbations as well as quantum fluctuations from light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

We study power law inflation in the context of non-minimally coupled to the scalar curvature. We analyze the inflationary solutions under an exact analysis and also in the slow roll approximation. In both solutions, we consider the recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-06 Sergio del Campo , Carlos Gonzalez , Ramon Herrera

In this paper, we have constructed quantum effective potentials and used them to study slow-roll inflationary cosmology. We derived the generalised RG equation for the effective potential in the leading logarithmic approximation and applied…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-17 D. I. Kazakov , R. M. Iakhibbaev , D. M. Tolkachev

The calculation of scalar gravitational and matter perturbations during multiple-field inflation valid to first order in slow roll is discussed. These fields may be the coordinates of a non-trivial field manifold and hence have non-minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. W. van Tent , S. Groot Nibbelink

We study corrections to the power spectra of curvature and tensor perturbations and the tensor-to-scalar ratio in single field slow roll inflation due to initial conditions imprinted by a fast-roll stage prior to slow roll. For a wide range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-22 Louis Lello , Daniel Boyanovsky

We re-examine large scalar fields within effective field theory, in particular focussing on the issues raised by their use in inflationary models (as suggested by BICEP2 to obtain primordial tensor modes). We argue that when the large-field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-18 C. P. Burgess , M. Cicoli , F. Quevedo , M. Williams