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We explore the possibility of describing our universe with a singularity--free, closed, spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmological model, using only general relativity and a suitable equation of state which produces an inflationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-01 S. S. Bayin , F. I. Cooperstock , V. Faraoni

We elucidate the counting of the relevant small parameters in inflationary perturbation theory. Doing this allows for an explicit delineation of the domain of validity of the semi-classical approximation to gravity used in the calculation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-21 Peter Adshead , C. P. Burgess , R. Holman , Sarah Shandera

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of scalar fields governed by higher-order gravity, with particular emphasis on models inspired by the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator--a prototypical fourth-order system known for its connection to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Genly Leon , Yoelsy Leyva , Giovanni Otalora , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Aleksander Kozak

In this article, we explore the concept of cosmological inflation within the framework of the $f (T,\mathcal{T})$ theory of gravity, where $f$ is a general function of the Torsion scalar $T$ and the trace, $\mathcal{T}$, of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Aaqid Bhat , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo

This paper is devoted to study the warm inflation using vector fields in the background of locally rotationally symmetric Bianchi type I universe model. We formulate the field equations, slow-roll and perturbation parameters (scalar and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Sharif , Rabia Saleem

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

During inflation, the geometry of spacetime is described by a (quasi-)de Sitter phase. Inflationary observables are determined by the underlying (softly broken) de Sitter isometry group SO(1, 4) which acts like a conformal group on R^3:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

We analyze a class of bottom-up holographic models for low energy thermo-electric transport. The models we focus on belong to a family of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theories parameterized by two scalar functions, characterizing the dilaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-15 Mukund Rangamani , Moshe Rozali , Darren Smyth

The equivalence between $f(R)$ and scalar-tensor theories is revisited, we consequently explored different $f(R)$ models. After consideration of specific definition of the scalar field, we derived the potentials $V(\phi)$ for each $f(R)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Beatrice Murorunkwere , Fidele Twagirayezu , Albert Munyeshyaka , Joseph Ntahompagaze , Abraham Ayirwanda

We consider the quasi-de Sitter geometry of the inflationary universe. We calculate the energy flux of the slowly rolling background scalar field through the quasi-de Sitter apparent horizon and set it equal to the change of the entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrei Frolov , Lev Kofman

The early dark energy resolution of Hubble tension seems to be suggesting a scale-invariant Harrison-Zeldovich spectrum of primordial scalar perturbation, i.e. $n_s=1$ ($|n_s-1|\sim {\cal O}(0.001)$) for $H_0\sim 73$km/s/Mpc. In this work,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Hao-Shi Yuan , Ze-Yu Peng , Yun-Song Piao

We present the analytic forms for the spectra of the cosmological perturbations from an initially anisotropic universe for the high momentum modes in the context of WKB approximations, as the continuation of the work [29]. We consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Masato Minamitsuji

The spectrum of cosmological perturbations in the context of the one-bubble open inflation model is discussed, taking into account fluctuations of the metric. We find that, quite generically,thin wall single field models have no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Jaume Garriga , Xavier Montes , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

We investigate the inflationary universe in a theory where two scalar fields non-minimally coupling to the scalar curvature and an extra $R^2$ term exist and the conformal invariance is broken. In particular, the slow-roll inflation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-01 Kazuharu Bamba

We derive general analytic formulae for the power spectrum and spectral index of the curvature perturbation produced during inflation driven by a multi-component inflaton field, up to the second order in the slow-roll approximation. We do…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Takahiro T. Nakamura , Ewan D. Stewart

We develop a nonperturbative method through the Hartree factorization to examine the quantum fluctuation effects on the single-field inflationary models in a spatially flat FRW cosmological space-time. Apart from the background field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Shu-Lin Cheng , Da-Shin Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

In scalaron-Higgs inflation the Standard Model Higgs boson is non-minimally coupled to gravity and the Einstein-Hilbert action is supplemented by the quadratic scalar curvature invariant. For the quartic Higgs self-coupling $\lambda$ fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-12 Anirudh Gundhi , Christian F. Steinwachs

We propose new classes of inflation models based on the modular symmetry, where the modulus field $\tau$ serves as the inflaton. We establish a connection between modular inflation and modular stabilization, wherein the modulus field rolls…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-21 Gui-Jun Ding , Si-Yi Jiang , Wenbin Zhao

We present a general slow-roll formalism within braneworld-motivated cosmologies with non-standard effective Friedmann equations. Full towers of parameters involving either the inflaton potential or the Hubble parameter are constructed and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianluca Calcagni

If the inflaton is a heavy scalar field, it may equilibrate slower than some other degrees of freedom, e.g. non-Abelian gauge bosons. In this case, perturbations in the inflaton field and in a thermal plasma coexist from a given moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-18 M. Laine , S. Procacci , A. Rogelj