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In most current models of inflation based on a weakly self-coupled scalar matter field minimally coupled to gravity, the period of inflation lasts so long that, at the beginning of the inflationary period, the physical wavelengths of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jerome Martin , Robert H. Brandenberger

This paper investigates a scale-invariant inflationary model characterized by a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity and a curvature term quadratic in the Ricci scalar. The model's dynamic is analyzed using a full numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Mariaveronica De Angelis , Chiara Cecchini , Massimiliano Rinaldi

A direct detection of primordial gravitational waves is the ultimate probe for any inflation model. While current CMB bounds predict the generic scale-invariant gravitational wave spectrum from slow-roll inflation to be below the reach of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-23 Valerie Domcke

The anomaly-induced inflation (modified Starobinsky model) is based on the application of the effective quantum field theory approach to the Early Universe. We present a brief general review of this model with a special attention to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ilya L. Shapiro

The Starobinsky model is one of the inflation models consistent with the result of CMB observation by the Planck satellite. We consider the dynamics of the Starobinsky inflation in the presence of another scalar field with a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Shinta Kasuya , Kanto Moritake

Recent evidences of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) through Pulsar Time Array (PTA) observations hint towards an alternative inflationary scenario, compared to the usual inflation, for describing the early stage of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 Simone D'Onofrio , Sergei Odintsov , Tanmoy Paul

In this paper we point out that Starobinky inflation could be induced by quantum effects due to a large non-minimal coupling of the Higgs boson to the Ricci scalar. The Higgs Starobinsky mechanism provides a solution to issues attached to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Xavier Calmet , Iberê Kuntz

We investigate the production of a spectator scalar dark matter field that is directly coupled to the inflaton during inflation and reheating. We consider two specific inflationary potentials, namely the Starobinsky and T-model of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Mathias Pierre , Sarunas Verner

An extension of the Starobinsky model is proposed. Besides the usual Starobinsky Lagrangian, a term proportional to the derivative of the scalar curvature, $\nabla_{\mu}R\nabla^{\mu}R$, is considered. The analyzis is done in the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-04 R. R. Cuzinatto , L. G. Medeiros , P. J. Pompeia

Starobinsky's $R+\alpha R^2$ inflation provides a compelling one-parameter inflationary model that is supported by current cosmological observations. However, at the same order in spacetime derivatives as the $R^2$ term, an effective theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Eugenio Bianchi , Mauricio Gamonal

We consider initial conditions leading to Starobinsky inflation in the general quadratic gravity, where the action of the theory contains one more curvature square invariant in addition to $R^2$. We have chosen corresponding coefficients in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-09 Daniel Muller , Alexey Toporensky

We point out that the ability of some models of inflation, such as Higgs inflation and the universal attractor models, in reproducing the available data is due to their relation to the Starobinsky model of inflation. For large field values,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-05 Alex Kehagias , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Antonio Riotto

We explored a parameterized slow-roll inflationary model within the $\Lambda$CDM framework, utilizing a combination of data from Planck 2018, ACT DR6, DESI DR2, and BICEP/Keck 2018 (P-ACT-LB-BK18). Additionally, we incorporated the SH0ES…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhi-Chong Qiu , Ye-Huang Pang , Qing-Guo Huang

This paper presents the CMB angular power spectrum obtained using the \texttt{CAMB} code for three different models of inflation: the Starobinsky inflationary model, the generalized Starobinsky inflationary model, and the chaotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Daniel Pozo , Lenin Calvache , Esteban Orozco , Vicente A. Arévalo , Clara Rojas

Starobinsky inflation is an attractive, fundamental model to explain the Planck measurements, and its higher-order extension may allow us to probe quantum gravity effects. We show that future CMB data combined with the 21cm intensity map…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Tanmoy Modak , Lennart Röver , Björn Malte Schäfer , Benedikt Schosser , Tilman Plehn

Based on the effective field theory (EFT) of nonsingular cosmologies, we build a stable model, without the ghost and gradient instabilities, of bounce inflation (inflation is preceded by a cosmological bounce). We perform a full simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Yong Cai , Yu-Tong Wang , Jin-Yun Zhao , Yun-Song Piao

We review inflationary cosmology in modified gravity such as $R^2$ gravity with its extensions in order to generalize the Starobinsky inflation model. In particular, we explore inflation realized by three kinds of effects: modification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-11 Kazuharu Bamba , Sergei D. Odintsov

Starobinsky described an inflationary scenario in which quantum corrections to vacuum Einstein equations drive the inflation. The quantum cosmology of the model is studied by solving the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. A connection between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Biswas , A. Shaw , B. Modak

In this paper, inflationary cosmology is reviewed, paying particular attention to its observational signatures associated with large-scale density perturbations generated from quantum fluctuations. In the most general scalar-tensor theories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-13 Shinji Tsujikawa

The recent Planck data of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropies support the Starobinsky theory in which the quadratic Ricci scalar drives cosmic inflation. We build up a multi-dimensional quantum consisted ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-30 Fabio Briscese , Leonardo Modesto , Shinji Tsujikawa