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Recent results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) indicate a scalar spectral index $n_s \simeq 0.9743$, in excellent agreement with the prediction of linear inflation. However, the corresponding tensor-to-scalar ratio $r \simeq…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-18 Christian Dioguardi , Alexandros Karam

We develop a new class of cosmological attractors which are compatible with the recent ACT results. They are based on two types of fractional Kaehler potentials, K, for a gauge-singlet inflaton phi which reduce, along the inflationary path,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 C. Pallis

We review two types of fractional Kaehler potentials $K$ which reduce, along the inflationary path, to the form $N/(1-\phi^{q_{\rm M}})^{p}$ with $q_{\rm M}=1$ or $2$ and $0.1\leq p\leq10$. Their coexistence, within a non-linear sigma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 C. Pallis

The ACT data have severely constrained the single scalar field models. Known models of inflation, like the Starobinsky model, the Higgs model and the $a$-attractors are at least $2\sigma$ off the ACT data. In this work we aim to provide a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 V. K. Oikonomou

We establish properties of a new type of fractal which has partial self similarity at all scales. For any collection of iterated functions systems with an associated probability distribution and any positive integer V there is a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Michael Barnsley , John E. Hutchinson , Örjan Stenflo

Palatini $F(R)$ gravity proved to be a powerful tool in order to realize asymptotically flat inflaton potentials. Unfortunately, it also inevitably implies higher-order inflaton kinetic terms in the Einstein frame that might jeopardize the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-14 Christian Dioguardi , Antonio Racioppi

We show that pure quadratic gravity with quantum loop corrections yields a viable inflationary scenario. We also show that a large family of models in the Jordan frame, with softly-broken scale invariance, corresponds to the same theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-30 Massimiliano Rinaldi

In this letter we shall demonstrate that the viable $F(R)$ gravities can be classified mainly into two classes of inflationary attractors, either the $R^2$ attractors or the $\alpha$-attractors. To show this, we shall derive the most…

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

Recent ACT measurements favor a scalar spectral index n_s larger than the Planck value, posing a challenge to many single-field slow-roll inflation models. We show that a smooth, localized step in the inflaton potential can shift the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Kai-Ge Zhang , Chengjie Fu , Jian-Feng He , Zong-Kuan Guo

A generic outcome of theories with scalar-tensor coupling is the existence of inflationary attractors, either power-law or de Sitter. The fluctuations arising during this phase are Gaussian and their spectrum depends on the wavenumber $k$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Luca Amendola , Diego Bellisai , Franco Occhionero , Rome Astronomical Observatory

In the lights of current BICEP2 observations accompanied with the PLANCK satellite results, it has been observed that the simple single field chaotic inflationary models provide a good agreement with their spectral index n_s and large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-20 Xin Gao , Tianjun Li , Pramod Shukla

Inflationary $\alpha$-attractor models can be naturally implemented in supergravity with hyperbolic geometry. They have stable predictions for observables, such as $n_s=1-{2/ N_e} $, assuming that the potential in terms of the original…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde

Recent results from the ACT collaboration indicate a higher value for the scalar spectral index, with $n_s = 0.9743 \pm 0.0034$, which sets tighter constraints on inflationary models, and these shifts are not in favor of many pre existing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Mehnaz Zahoor , Suhail Khan , Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat

The most recent data release from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) reveals a larger value of the scalar spectral tilt $n_s$, ruling out a broad class of inflationary attractors. In this paper, we consider inflationary models including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Qing Gao , Yanjiang Qian , Yungui Gong , Zhu Yi

We consider, in Palatini formalism, a modified gravity of which the scalar field derivative couples to Einstein tensor. In this scenario, Ricci scalar, Ricci tensor and Einstein tensor are functions of connection field. As a result, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-20 Narakorn Kaewkhao , Burin Gumjudpai

In the era of Planck cosmology, the inflationary paradigm is best fitted toward the cosmological attractor scenarios, including the induced inflation, universal attractors, conformal attractors, and special attractors that are cataloged as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Chengjie Fu , Di Lu , Shao-Jiang Wang

We introduce a new family of cosmological attractors with non-minimal coupling of gravity and non-canonical kinetic terms. In the Einstein frame, these models transform into a class of exponential and polynomial attractors with the spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde

One of the fundamental objectives of contemporary cosmology is to understand the physics of the inflationary universe, owing to its observably verifiable predictions about the very early universe with an energy scale of $\sim 10^{16}$ GeV.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Aayush Randeep , Rajib Saha

We propose a class of inflation models with potential V(\phi)=\alpha \phi^n exp(-\beta^m \phi^m). We show that such kind of inflaton potentials can be realized in supergravity theory with a small shift symmetry breaking term in the K\"ahler…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Tianjun Li , Zhijin Li , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos

Properties of the phase space of the standard map with memory are investigated. This map was obtained from a kicked fractional differential equation. Depending on the value of the parameter of the map and the fractional order of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 Mark Edelman , Vasily E. Tarasov
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