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We investigate inflation driven by the evolution of highly excited quantum states within the framework of out of equilibrium field dynamics. These states are characterized by a non-perturbatively large number of quanta in a band of momenta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Boyanovsky , F. J. Cao , H. J. de Vega

Dynamics of the inflaton scalar field oscillating around a minimum of the singular potentials in the expanding Universe is investigated. Asymptotic formulas are obtained describing the cosmological expansion at the late times. The problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Vladimir A. Koutvitsky , Eugene M. Maslov

We study cosmological self-reproduction in models of inflation driven by a scalar field $\phi$ with a noncanonical kinetic term ($k$-inflation). We develop a general criterion for the existence of attractors and establish conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ferdinand Helmer , Sergei Winitzki

We propose a new mechanism to generate density perturbations in inflationary models. Spatial fluctuations in the decay rate of the inflaton field to ordinary matter lead to fluctuations in the reheating temperature. We argue that in most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gia Dvali , Andrei Gruzinov , Matias Zaldarriaga

We study stochastic inflation in the presence of a dynamical gravitational constant. We describe the Arnowitt--Deser--Misner formalism for Jordan--Brans--Dicke theory of gravity with an inflaton field. The inflaton and dilaton scalar fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Juan Garcia-Bellido

Particle production in the background of an external classical oscillating field is a key process describing the stage of preheating after inflation. For sufficiently strong couplings between the inflaton and matter fields, this process is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-26 Igor Rudenok , Yuri Shtanov , Stanislav Vilchinskii

By using the thermodynamic theory of irreversible processes and Einstein general relativity, a cosmological model is proposed where the early universe is considered as a mixture of a scalar field with a matter field. The scalar field refers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Kremer , F. P. Devecchi

We present a novel theory of the very early universe which addresses the traditional horizon and flatness problems of big bang cosmology and predicts a scale invariant spectrum of perturbations. Unlike inflation, this scenario requires no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-24 Kurt Hinterbichler , Justin Khoury

We study the evolution of the curvature perturbation on the super-horizon scales starting from the inflationary epoch until there remains only a single dynamical degree of freedom, presureless matter, in the universe. We consider the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-27 Ki-Young Choi , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Donghui Jeong

We report on a new class of fast-roll inflationary models. In a huge part of its parameter space, inflationary perturbations exhibit quite unusual phenomena such as scalar and tensor modes freezing out at widely different times, as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Pascal M. Vaudrevange , Dmitry I. Podolsky , Glenn D. Starkman

Interactions between the inflaton and any additional fields can lead to isolated bursts of particle production during inflation (for example from parametric resonance or a phase transition). Inflationary particle production leaves localized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 Neil Barnaby

We study the dynamics of the quantum scalar field responsible for inflation in different epochs of the evolution of the universe by using a recently introduced nonperturbative formalism from a 5D apparent vacuum.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alfredo Raya Montano , Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Mauricio Bellini

Cosmic inflation is the leading theory to explain early Universe history and structure formation. Non-oscillatory inflation is a class of models which can naturally introduce a post-inflationary stiff period of the Universe's evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Lucy Brissenden , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Eemeli Tomberg

An alternative scenario about the phenomenology of primordial Universe is k-inflation. According to this concept, inflation can be achieved by nonstandard kinetic term of scalar field, namely the inflaton. In this project we focus on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 F. P. Fronimos , S. A. Venikoudis

Cosmological perturbations, originating in the quantum fluctuations of the fields that drive inflation, are observed to be nearly scale invariant at the largest scales. At smaller scales, however, perturbations are not severely constrained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Ioannis Dalianis

The gauge-independent invariant approach to investigation of the linear scalar perturbations of inflaton and gravitational fields is developed in self-consistent way. This approach allows to compare various gauges used by other researchers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Roman S. Pasechnik , Gregory M. Vereshkov

We investigate entanglement generation between the sub- and super-Hubble modes of inflaton fluctuations, in the context of particle production from perturbations during inflation. We consider a large-field inflationary scenario where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Alessio Belfiglio , Orlando Luongo , Stefano Mancini

We discuss the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a complex scalar field with and without a quartic self-interaction in a zero curvature Friedman-Lema\^{\i}tre Universe. The complex scalar field, as well as the metric, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 D. Scialom

We have recently proposed attractor models for modulus fixing, inflation, supersymmetry breaking and dark energy based on no-scale supergravity. In this paper we develop phenomenological and cosmological aspects of these no-scale attractor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 John Ellis , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

Precise cosmological data from WMAP and forthcoming CMB experiments motivate the study of the quantum corrections to the slowroll inflationary parameters.We find the quantum (loop) corrections to the equations of motion of the classical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez