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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are supposed to form through the gravitational collapse of regions with large density fluctuations. The formation of PBHs inevitably leads to the emission of scalar-induced gravitational wave (SIGW) signals,…

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The scalar induced gravitational waves are produced from primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbations. We constrain the fractional energy density of scalar induced gravitational waves from gravitational waves…

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We show that expanding or contracting Kasner universes are unstable due to the amplification of gravitational waves (GW). As an application of this general relativity effect, we consider a pre-inflationary anisotropic geometry characterized…

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We present a novel mechanism for gravitational wave generation in the early Universe. Light spectator scalar fields during inflation can acquire a blue-tilted power spectrum due to stochastic effects. We show that this effect can lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Reza Ebadi , Soubhik Kumar , Amara McCune , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang

Characterizing the physical properties of the stochastic gravitational waves background (SGWB) is a key step towards identifying the nature of its possible origin. We focus our analysis on SGWB anisotropies. The existence of a non-trivial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Peter Adshead , Niayesh Afshordi , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Eugene A. Lim , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We identify a characteristic pattern in the scalar-induced stochastic gravitational wave background from particle production during inflation. If particle production is sufficiently efficient, the scalar power spectrum exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Lukas T. Witkowski

The initial conditions on the anisotropies of the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin (CGWB) largely depend on the mechanism that generates the gravitational waves. Since the CGWB is expected to be non-thermal,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-15 Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Alina Mierna , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

The usual account for the origin of cosmic structure during inflation is not fully satisfactory, as it lacks a physical mechanism capable of generating the inhomogeneity and anisotropy of our Universe, from an exactly homogeneous and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-18 Gabriel Leon , Susana J. Landau , Daniel Sudarsky

The recent detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar timing arrays has opened a new window in understanding supermassive black hole binaries and in probing the universe at the early time. Recently, pulsar timing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Fengting Xie , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Qing-Hua Zhu , Xin Li

We give an analytical approximation for the energy spectrum of the scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) generated by a broken power-law power spectrum, and find that both the asymptotic power-law tails and the intermediate peak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-30 Chong-Zhi Li , Chen Yuan , Qing-guo Huang

If primordial scalar or tensor perturbations are enhanced on short scales, it may lead to the production of observable gravitational wave signals. These waves may be sourced by scalar-scalar, scalar-tensor or tensor-tensor interactions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Raphaël Picard , Matthew W. Davies

The spatial covariant gravities provide a natural way to including odd-order spatial derivative terms into the gravitational action, which breaks the parity symmetry at gravitational sector. A lot of parity-violating scalar-tensor theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-08 Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

We consider the inflationary universe with a spectator scalar field coupled to a $U(1)$ gauge field and calculate curvature perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs). We find that the sourced GWs can be larger than the one from vacuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Tomohiro Fujita , Ippei Obata , Takahiro Tanaka , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Gravitational waves induced by large primordial curvature fluctuations may result in a sizable stochastic gravitational wave background. Interestingly, curvature fluctuations are gradually generated by initial isocurvature fluctuations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-06 Guillem Domènech

Usually, we assume that there is no inhomogeneity isotropic in terms of our location in the universe. This assumption has not been observationally confirmed yet in sufficient accuracy and we need to consider a method to restrict isotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Hiroyuki Negishi

It is proposed that if quantum states of space-time are coherent on null surfaces, holographic Planck-scale fluctuations of inflationary horizons dominate the formation of primordial scalar curvature perturbations. It is shown that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Craig Hogan

After the inflationary phase, the universe enters the preheating phase, during which the inflaton field rolls down its potential and oscillates. When the potential significantly deviates from a parabolic shape at its minimum, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

Primordial gravitational waves are a crucial prediction of inflation theory, and their detection through their imprints on the cosmic microwave background is actively being pursued. However, these attempts have not yet been successful. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Yan-Heng Yu , Sai Wang

We consider the primordial gravity wave background produced by inflation. We compute the small anisotropy produced by the primordial scalar fluctuations.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Vasyl Alba , Juan Maldacena

Whether or not the primordial gravitational wave (GW) produced during inflation is sufficiently strong to be observable, GWs are necessarily produced from the primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada