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By demanding the validity of an effective field theory description during inflation, in this note we derive some peculiar inequalities among the three interesting stringy and cosmological parameters, namely the tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r$),…

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We demonstrate that string motivated inflation ending via tachyonic instability leaves a detectable imprint on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation by virtue of the excitation of non-Gaussian gravitational fluctuations. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kari Enqvist , Asko Jokinen , Anupam Mazumdar , Tuomas Multamaki , Antti Vaihkonen

The recent local measurement of the Hubble constant based on the distance-ladder method has reached a $1.91\%$ precision, but this result is in tension with the early-universe measurements at the more than 4$\sigma$ level, bringing a crisis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Rui-Yun Guo , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We analyze a generalized framework of smooth F-term hybrid inflation (smFHI) consistent with gauge coupling unification within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The embedding of the model in two specific Supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Waqas Ahmed , Constantinos Pallis , Mansoor Ur Rehman

The ACT data shows an enhancement in the value of the scalar spectral index, as $n_s = 0.9743 \pm 0.0034$, leading to disfavoring many inflationary models, including the Starobinsky model. To satisfy the constraint made by ACT, we will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yogesh , Abolhassan Mohammadi , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu

In this paper, we study a particular type of inflation by using non-local Friedman equations that are somehow derived from the zero levels of string field theory and express a tachyonic action. Then, we challenge it by further refining de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan , S. Noori Gashti , İ. Sakallı , M. R. Alipour

We consider the non-minimally kinetic coupled version of DGP brane model, where the kinetic term of the scalar field is coupled to the metric and Einstein tensor on the brane by a coupling constant $\zeta$. We obtain the corresponding field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-12 F. Darabi , A. Parsiya , K. Atazadeh

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

We study the inflationary gravitational wave background induced by Abelian gauge fields generated by non-minimal kinetic and axial couplings to the inflaton. We show that, up to slow-roll corrections, for coupling functions that share the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Martin Teuscher , Ruth Durrer , Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau

We use the most recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) data to perform a Bayesian statistical analysis and discuss the observational viability of inflationary models with a non-minimal coupling,~$\xi$, between the inflaton field and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Marcela Campista , Micol Benetti , Jailson Alcaniz

In this paper we investigate the inflationary phenomenology of an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory compatible with the GW170817 event, by imposing the constant-roll evolution on the scalar field. We develop the constant-roll GW170817-compatible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-15 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou , F. P. Fronimos , S. A. Venikoudis

The most studied mechanism of inflationary magnetogenesis relies on the time-dependence of the coefficient of the gauge kinetic term $F_{\mu\nu}\,{F}^{\mu\nu}$. Unfortunately, only extremely finely tuned versions of the model can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Chiara Caprini , Lorenzo Sorbo

A novel approach to quintessential inflation model building is studied, within the framework of $\alpha$-attractors, motivated by supergravity theories. Inflationary observables are in excellent agreement with the latest CMB observations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-23 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Charlotte Owen

We use a cosmology-independent method to calibrate gamma-ray burst (GRB) from the observational Hubble data (OHD) with the cosmic chronometers method. By using Gaussian Process to reconstruct OHD, we calibrate the Amati relation ($E_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Zihao Li , Bin Zhang , Nan Liang

We consider observational limits on a proposed model of the string landscape in inflation. In this scenario, effects from the decoherence of entangled quantum states in long-wavelength modes in the universe result in modifications to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 William H. Kinney

We study the inflation process of universe based on the renormalizable quantum gravity formulated as a conformal field theory (CFT). We show that the power-law CFT spectrum approaches to that of the Harrison-Zel'dovich-Peebles type as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-18 Ken-ji Hamada , Shinichi Horata , Tetsuyuki Yukawa

We consider the renormalization group improvement in the theory of the Standard Model Higgs boson playing the role of an inflaton with a strong non-minimal coupling to gravity. It suggests the range of the Higgs mass $135.6 {\rm GeV}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-08 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik , C. Kiefer , A. A. Starobinsky , C. Steinwachs

In this talk, I review briefly a scenario for the evolution of a string-inspired cosmological model, in which condensates of primordial gravitational waves (GW), formed at the very early eras after the Big Bang, are considered responsible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-26 Nikolaos E. Mavromatos

Recent observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), especially when combined with DESI baryon acoustic oscillation data, indicate a scalar spectral index $n_s$ higher than the value reported by \textit{Planck} 2018, placing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Jureeporn Yuennan , Farruh Atamurotov , Salvatore Capozziello , Phongpichit Channuie

We investigate observational constraints on a specific one-parameter extension to the minimal quintessence model, where the quintessence field acquires a quadratic coupling to the scalar curvature through a coupling constant $\xi$. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-28 Chao-Qiang Geng , Chung-Chi Lee , Yi-Peng Wu