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We introduce a frame-covariant formalism for inflation of scalar-curvature theories by adopting a differential geometric approach which treats the scalar fields as coordinates living on a field-space manifold. This ensures that our…

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Various scenarios of the initial inflation of the universe are distinguished by the choice of a scalar field {\em potential} $U(\phi)$ which simulates a {\it temporarily} non--vanishing {\em cosmological term}. Our new method, which…

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We study a multi-field inflationary theory with separable Lagrangian, which has different speed of sound for each field. We find that the fields always coupled at perturbative level through gravitational interaction. We show that if the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Shi Pi , Du Wang

Swampland conjectures have attracted quite some interest in the cosmological community. They have been shown to have wide ranging implications , like constraints on inflationary models, primordial black holes, dark energy to name a few.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-02 Oem Trivedi

In this work, we investigate the generation of primordial black holes (PBHs) within the framework of single-field inflationary models and their compatibility with the cosmological history of the Universe. Our results suggest that, depending…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Sasha Allegrini , Loris Del Grosso , Antonio J. Iovino , Alfredo Urbano

We investigate cosmology with complex scalar field. It is shown that such models can describe two stages of inflation and the oscillatory regime. Thus we don't need both quintessence and $\Lambda$-term. It is enough to have single complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Yurov

In this brief note we present a set of equations describing the evolution of perturbed scalar fields in a cosmological spacetime with multiple scalar fields. We take into account of the simultaneously excited full metric perturbations in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Hwang

Using numerical solutions of the full Einstein field equations coupled to a scalar inflaton field in 3+1 dimensions, we study the conditions under which a universe that is initially expanding, highly inhomogeneous and dominated by gradient…

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We investigate the recently proposed hybrid inflation models with two stages of inflation. We show that quantum fluctuations at the time corresponding to the phase transition between the two inflationary stages can trigger the formation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-19 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Andrei Linde , David Wands

I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, arguing that they form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic…

Popular Physics · Physics 2009-05-11 Max Tegmark

In view of cosmological parameters being measured to ever higher precision, theoretical predictions must also be computed to an equally high level of precision. In this work we investigate the impact on such predictions of relaxing some of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Mindaugas Karčiauskas , Kazunori Kohri , Taro Mori , Jonathan White

The unifying approach to early-time and late-time universe based on phantom cosmology is proposed. We consider gravity-scalar system which contains usual potential and scalar coupling function in front of kinetic term. As a result, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

The scalar field theory of cosmological inflation constitutes nowadays one of the preferred scenarios for the physics of the early universe. In this paper we aim at studying the inflationary universe making use of a numerical lattice…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 Angelo Caravano , Eiichiro Komatsu , Kaloian D. Lozanov , Jochen Weller

Inflation plays a central role in our current understanding of the universe. According to the standard viewpoint, the homogeneous and isotropic mode of the inflaton field drove an early phase of nearly exponential expansion of the universe,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-10 Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Daniel Sudarsky

In inflationary models that produce a spike of power on short scales, back-reaction of small-scale substructure onto large-scale modes is enhanced. We argue that the separate universe framework provides a highly convenient tool to compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Laura Iacconi , David Mulryne , David Seery

To derive a power spectrum for energy density inhomogeneities in a closed universe, we study a spatially-closed inflation-modified hot big bang model whose evolutionary history is divided into three epochs: an early slowly-rolling scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Bharat Ratra

During inflation explicit perturbative computations of quantum field theories which contain massless, non-conformal fields exhibit secular effects that grow as powers of the logarithm of the inflationary scale factor. Starobinskii's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, which form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Max Tegmark

Currently, a method has been developed for the cosmological inflation model with a single scalar field to calculate cosmological parameters such as the power spectrum of scalar and tensor perturbations, their spectral indices, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Katerina Bolshakova , Sergey Chervon

We approach the cosmological inflation thought symmetries of differential equations. We consider the general inflaton field in a homogeneous Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker spacetime and with the use of conformal transformations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Andronikos Paliathanasis