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Models of cosmic inflation suggest that our universe underwent an early phase of accelerated expansion, driven by the dynamics of one or more scalar fields. Inflationary models make specific, quantitative predictions for several observable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-10 David I. Kaiser

We study a class of minimally coupled scalar field theories which leads to analytic solutions for the Hubble rate and the scalar field, where the scalar field obeys a generalized tracking law $\dot{\phi}^2\sim H^{-m}$. The inflationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 V. K. Oikonomou

We consider two classes of non-minimally coupled inflation models; those with a quadratic coupling of the inflaton to gravity, and the `Universal Attractor' models where the coupling is connected to the potential. We make a detailed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 David C. Edwards , Andrew R. Liddle

We explore the inflationary evolution and observational viability of the $\alpha$-attractor E-model in the framework of warm inflation, focusing on both weak and strong dissipative regimes, with a dissipation coefficient linear in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Bhargabi Saha , Malay K. Nandy

Recently a broad class of superconformal inflationary models was found leading to a universal observational prediction $n_s=1-2/N$ and $r=12/N^2$. Here we generalize this class of models by introducing a parameter $\alpha$ inversely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Diederik Roest

We investigate a class of inflationary models in modified gravity theories which contain a non-minimal coupling between gravity and a scalar field $\phi$ (inflaton) as $f(R,T)=R \bigl(1+\alpha+ \kappa^4 \beta T \bigr)+\kappa^2\gamma T $…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Payel Sarkar , Ashmita , Prasanta Kumar Das

A plethora of inflationary models can produce interesting small-scale phenomenology, such as enhanced scalar fluctuations leading to primordial black hole (PBH) production and large scalar-induced GW. Nevertheless, good models must…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Laura Iacconi , Michael Bacchi , Luiz Filipe Guimarães , Felipe T. Falciano

A generalization of inflationary $\alpha$-attractor models (``polynomial $\alpha$-attractor'') was recently proposed by Kallosh and Linde, in which the potential involves logarithmic functions of the inflaton so that the derivative of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Kei-ichiro Kubota , Hiroki Matsui , Takahiro Terada

Inflationary scenarios motivated by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) where five scalar fields are non-minimally coupled to gravity are considered. The potential of the model and the function of non-minimal coupling are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-01 M. N. Dubinin , E. Yu. Petrova , E. O. Pozdeeva , S. Yu. Vernov

In light of the most recent cosmological observations, we provide new updated constraints on the slow-roll inflation in different extended scenarios beyond the $\Lambda\rm{CDM}$ cosmological model. Along with the usual six parameters, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-25 Matteo Forconi , William Giarè , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri

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

In the present work we study a warm inflationary model defined by a quasi-exponential inflaton potential and an inflaton decay rate proportional to the Hubble rate. The model is characterized by three free parameters. We compute the power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Nelson Videla , Grigoris Panotopoulos

A reformulation of inflationary model analyses appeared recently, in which inflationary observables are determined by the structure of a pole in the inflaton kinetic term rather than the shape of the inflaton potential. We comprehensively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-04 Takahiro Terada

We investigate models in which inflation is driven by an ultraviolet safe and interacting scalar sector stemming from a new class of nonsupersymmetric gauge field theories. These new theories, differently from generic scalar models, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-22 Niklas Grønlund Nielsen , Francesco Sannino , Ole Svendsen

Single-field models of $\alpha$-attractor quintessential inflation provide a unified picture of the two periods of early- and late-time cosmic acceleration, where both inflation and dark energy are described by a single scalar degree of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-05 Yashar Akrami , Santiago Casas , Senwen Deng , Valeri Vardanyan

The primordial power spectrum informs the possible inflationary histories of our universe. Given a power spectrum, the ensuing cosmic microwave background is calculated and compared to the observed one. Thus, one focus of modern cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-25 Ira Wolfson

We place observational constraints on slow-variation single-field inflationary models by carrying out the cosmological Monte Carlo simulation with the recent data of Planck combined with the WMAP large-angle polarization, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Shinji Tsujikawa , Junko Ohashi , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Antonio De Felice

This study examines how inflationary dynamics are affected by $f(R)$ theories with a non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature. Both positive and negative corrections to the minimal coupling of General Relativity are considered, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Miguel Barroso Varela , Orfeu Bertolami , Andreas Mantziris

We constrain models of single field inflation with the pre-\textit{Planck} CMB data. The data used here is the 9-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (\textit{WMAP}) data, South Pole Telescope (SPT) data and Atacama Cosmology Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma

We consider an extended inflation model in the frame of Higgs portal model, assuming a nonminimal coupling of the scalar field to the gravity. Using the new data from Planck $2013$ and other relevant astrophysical data, we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-08 Fa Peng Huang , Chong Sheng Li , Ding Yu Shao , Jian Wang