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We study a scalar field with non-minimal kinetic coupling to itself and to the curvature. The slow rolling conditions allowing an inflationary background have been found. The quadratic and Higgs type potentials have been considered, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-12 L. N. Granda

We study inflation for a quantum scalar electrodynamics model in curved space-time and for higher-derivative quantum gravity (QG) coupled with scalar electrodynamics. The corresponding renormalization-group (RG) improved potential is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Sergei Odintsov , Lorenzo Sebastiani

We study the dynamics of inflation in a generalized scalar-torsion gravity scenario by assuming a canonical scalar field non-minimally coupled to torsion with a Galileon-type self-interaction. After obtaining the field equations for a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-26 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Giovanni Otalora , Nelson Videla , Joel Saavedra

Recently the mechanism was found which allows avoidance of the cosmological singularity within the semi-classical formulation of Loop Quantum Gravity. Numerical studies show that the presence of self-interaction potential of the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. V. Vereshchagin

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

One of the fundamental objectives of contemporary cosmology is to understand the physics of the inflationary universe, owing to its observably verifiable predictions about the very early universe with an energy scale of $\sim 10^{16}$ GeV.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Aayush Randeep , Rajib Saha

We investigate an inflationary scenario driven by a complex scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity and subject to a non-symmetric complex potential. The real part of the potential controls the cosmological background and realizes a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 S. D. Campos

In this paper we investigate the asymptotic dynamics of inflationary cosmological models that are based in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Our main aim is to explore the global structure of the phase space in the framework of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Israel Quiros , Tame Gonzalez , Roberto De Arcia , Ricardo García-Salcedo , Ulises Nucamendi , Joel F. Saavedra

In loop quantum gravity, modifications to the geometrical density cause a self-interacting scalar field to accelerate away from a minimum of its potential. In principle, this mechanism can generate the conditions that subsequently lead to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Bojowald , James E. Lidsey , David J. Mulryne , Parampreet Singh , Reza Tavakol

Within the framework of loop quantum cosmology (LQC), we investigate the effect of inverse volume corrections on the low scale spontaneously broken supersymmetric (SB SUSY) and exponential inflationary potentials. The LQC modifications to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Farough Parvizi , Soma Heydari , Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

In this study, we explore the pre-inflationary dynamics of the universe using a noncommutative extension of the mLQC-I framework. By incorporating a scalar field potential, we show that key features of Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Abolhassan Mohammadi

We propose new versions of the slow-roll approximation for inflationary models with nonminimally coupled scalar fields. We derive more precise expressions for the standard slow-roll parameters as functions of the scalar field. To verify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-30 Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva , Maria A. Skugoreva , Alexey V. Toporensky , Sergey Yu. Vernov

We investigate the slow-roll inflation in the nonminimal derivative coupling (NDC) model with exponential, quadric, and quartic potentials. It was known that this model provides an enhanced slow-roll inflation induced by gravitationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 Yun Soo Myung , Taeyoon Moon , Bum-Hoon Lee

We study viable small-field Coleman-Weinberg (CW) inflation models with the help of non-minimal coupling to gravity. The simplest small-field CW inflation model (with a low-scale potential minimum) is incompatible with the cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Kunio Kaneta , Osamu Seto , Ryo Takahashi

By incorporating quantum aspects of gravity, Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) provides a self-consistent extension of the inflationary scenario, allowing for modifications in the primordial inflationary power spectrum with respect to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Micol Benetti , Leila Graef , Rudnei O. Ramos

We study chaotic inflation driven by a real, massive, homogeneous minimally coupled scalar field in a flat Robertson-Walker spacetime. The semiclassical limit for gravity is considered, whereas the scalar field is treated quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Finelli , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

Recent and upcoming experimental data as well as the possibility of rich phenomenology has spiked interest in studying the quantum gravitational effects in cosmology at low (inflation-era) energy scales. While Planck scale physics is under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-30 Sandeep Aashish , Sukanta Panda

Recent measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), combined with Planck and DESI data, suggest a scalar spectral index $n_s$ higher than the Planck 2018 baseline, thereby placing conventional attractor-type inflationary models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jureeporn Yuennan , Peeravit Koad , Farruh Atamurotov , Phongpichit Channuie

This work is an analytical study of the main differences between classical inflationary effects of a fast-roll regime and imprints of hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) on the primordial power spectrum. Effective LQC solutions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-01 Beatriz Elizaga Navascués , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

Warm inflation is analyzed in the context of Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). The bounce in LQC provides a mean through which a Liouville measure can be defined, which has been used previously to characterize the a priori probability for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 L. L. Graef , Rudnei O. Ramos