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In the phase space perspective, scalar field slow roll inflation is described by a heteroclinic orbit from a saddle type fixed point to a final attractive point. In many models the saddle point resides in the scalar field asymptotics, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Laur Järv , Dmitri Kraiko

The viability of slow-roll approximation is examined by considering the structure of phase spaces in scalar-tensor theories of gravitation and the analysis is exemplified with a nonminimally coupled scalar field to the spacetime curvature.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Kemal Akın , A. Savaş Arapoğlu , A. Emrah Yükselci

In this note we point out that, contrary to the standard point of view, slow roll inflation is due to high gravitational friction. We show that the requirement of slow roll coincides with the requirement of a flat scalar field potential in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Cristiano Germani

It is commonly assumed that the Lagrangian of multi-field theories of gravity contains the sum of kinetic terms of scalar fields. However, we propose here the Lagrangian contains not the sum but the quotient of kinetic terms. With this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Changjun Gao

A scalar potential obtained from the $D$-term in the Supergravity models, which dominates over $F$ term and is mainly responsible for the inflationary phase in the early universe, is studied. The potential with canonical kinetic terms for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Rathin Adhikari , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Yogesh

We study the generation of primeval magnetic fields during inflation era in nonlinear theories of electrodynamics. Although the intensity of the produced fields strongly depends on characteristics of inflation and on the form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Campanelli , P. Cea , G. L. Fogli , L. Tedesco

We consider the torsional completion of gravity with spinor and scalar fields: we show how in this environment conditions of extreme symmetry or specific approximations imply the scalar field to be constant, so that slow-roll takes place…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-07 Luca Fabbri

We study models of modular inflation of the form expected to arise from low energy effective actions of superstring theories. We argue on general grounds that the most likely models of modular slow-roll inflation are small field models in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Ido Ben-Dayan , Ram Brustein , Senarath P. de Alwis

The slow-roll approximation is the usual starting point to study the constraints imposed on the inflaton potential parameters by the observational data. We show that, for a potential exhibiting at least two extrema and giving rise to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tiago Charters , Jose P. Mimoso , Ana Nunes

We investigate the possibility of obtaining inflationary solutions of the slow roll type from a low energy Lagrangian coming from superstrings. The advantage of such an approach is that in these theories the scalar potential has only one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. De la Macorra , S. Lola

We develop a stochastic approach to a non de Sitter Universe in a gauge-invariant way and obtain a system of Langevin-type equations which may be considered to be renormalization group equations for the long wave parts of the scalar fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Boris Spokoiny

In this work, we investigate how a smooth transition from a constant-roll to a slow-roll inflationary era may be realized, in the context of a canonical scalar field theory. We study in some detail the dynamical evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 V. K. Oikonomou

We study an inflation model with a flat scalar potential supported by observations and find that slow-roll inflation can emerge after a quasi-cyclic phase of the Universe, where it undergoes repeated expansions and contractions for a finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Hiroki Matsui , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Fuminobu Takahashi , Takahiro Terada

We obtain effective equations of inflationary dynamics for the mean inflaton and metric fields in the no-boundary and tunneling quantum states of the Universe. In the slow roll approximation (taking the form of the local Schwiger-DeWitt…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

The framework of a kind of noncanonical warm inflation is introduced, and the dynamical equations of this scenario are presented. We propose the slow roll approximations and give some redefining slow roll parameters in this scenario which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Xiao-Min Zhang , Ang Fu , Kai Li , Qian Li , Peng-Cheng Chu , Hong-Yang Ma , Jian-Yang Zhu

Generalized slow roll conditions and parameters are obtained for a general form of scalar-tensor theory (with no external sources), having arbitrary functions describing a nonminimal gravitational coupling F(\phi), a Kahler-like kinetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. R. Morris

We point out the existing confusions about the slowroll parameters and conditions for multifield inflation. If one requires the fields to roll down the gradient flow, we find that only articles adopting the Hubble slowroll expansion are on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 I-Sheng Yang

We consider cosmological inflation generated by a scalar field slowly rolling off from a de Sitter maximum of its potential. The models belong to the class of hilltop models and represent the most general model of this kind in which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-05 Mariano Cadoni , Edgardo Franzin , Salvatore Mignemi

The creation of large scale magnetic fields is studied in an inflationary universe where electrodynamics is assumed to be nonlinear. After inflation ends electrodynamics becomes linear and thus the description of reheating and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kerstin E. Kunze

A model of magnetic universe based on nonlinear electrodynamics has been introduced by Kruglov. This model describes an early inflation era followed by a radiation era. We show that this model is related to our model of universe based on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Pierre-Henri Chavanis