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We investigate the observational viability of a class of $\alpha$-attractors inflationary models in light of the most recent Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large-Scale Structure (LSS) data. By considering a double-well potential we…

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We have carried out detailed $k$-mode analysis of single-inflaton slow-roll inflationary perturbations including quantum fluctuations by setting up non-linear coupled differential equations of inflaton field ($\phi$), its perturbation…

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We discuss the latest constraints on a Taylor-expanded scalar inflaton potential, obtained focusing on its observable part only. This is in contrast with other works in which an extrapolation of the potential is applied using the slow-roll…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Wessel Valkenburg

The minimal supergravity framework is applied to a construction of new D-type single-field models of inflation in agreement with precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Planck Collaboration, BICEP/Keck…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-02 Yermek Aldabergenov , Sergei V. Ketov

We constrain models of single field inflation with the pre-\textit{Planck} CMB data. The data used here is the 9-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (\textit{WMAP}) data, South Pole Telescope (SPT) data and Atacama Cosmology Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma

During single clock inflation, hidden fields (i.e. fields coupled to the inflaton only gravitationally) in their adiabatic vacua can ordinarily only affect observables through virtual effects. After renormalizing background quantities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-30 Adrian del Rio , Ruth Durrer , Subodh P. Patil

Single-field models of $\alpha$-attractor quintessential inflation provide a unified picture of the two periods of early- and late-time cosmic acceleration, where both inflation and dark energy are described by a single scalar degree of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-05 Yashar Akrami , Santiago Casas , Senwen Deng , Valeri Vardanyan

Inflation generates gravitational waves, which may be observable in the low multipoles of the cosmic microwave background (cmb) anisotropy but only if the inflaton field variation is at least of order the Planck scale. Such a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 David H. Lyth

With Planck cosmic microwave background observations, we established the spectral amplitude and tilt of the primordial power spectrum. Evidence of a red spectral tilt ($n_\mathrm{s}=0.96$) at $8\sigma$ provides strong support for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-18 Ivan Debono , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo , George F. Smoot , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We propose a derivation of the inflaton scalar potential from the higher $(D)$ dimensional $(R+\gamma R^n-2\Lambda)$ gravity, with the new coupling constant $\gamma$ and the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We assume that a compactification…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Sergei V. Ketov , Hiroshi Nakada

We place observational constraints on slow-variation single-field inflationary models by carrying out the cosmological Monte Carlo simulation with the recent data of Planck combined with the WMAP large-angle polarization, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-12 Shinji Tsujikawa , Junko Ohashi , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Antonio De Felice

We introduce a new method for applying an inflationary prior to a cosmological dataset that includes relations between observables at arbitrary order in the slow roll expansion. The process is based on the inflationary flow equations, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Hiranya Peiris , Richard Easther

In this addendum to Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 023502, we present an update of cosmological constraints on single-field inflation in light of the Wilkinson Microwave Ansiotropy Probe satellite mission five-year results (WMAP5). We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 William H. Kinney , Edward W. Kolb , Alessandro Melchiorri , Antonio Riotto

We investigate inflation in closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe filled with the scalar field with power-law potential. For a wide range of powers and parameters of the potential we numerically calculated the slow-roll parameters and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 S. A. Pavluchenko

We propose a new class of natural inflation models based on a hidden scale invariance. In a very generic Wilsonian effective field theory with an arbitrary number of scalar fields, which exhibits scale invariance via the dilaton, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 Neil D. Barrie , Archil Kobakhidze , Shelley Liang

We examine the spectrum of inflaton fluctuations resulting from any given long period of exponential inflation. Infrared and ultraviolet divergences in the inflaton dispersion summed over all modes do not appear in our approach. We show how…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Matthew M. Glenz , Leonard Parker

We investigate the production of a spectator scalar dark matter field that is directly coupled to the inflaton during inflation and reheating. We consider two specific inflationary potentials, namely the Starobinsky and T-model of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Mathias Pierre , Sarunas Verner

Motivated by the possibility of inflation in the cosmic landscape, which may be approximated by a complicated potential, we study the density perturbations in multi-field inflation with a random potential. The random potential causes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-24 S. -H. Henry Tye , Jiajun Xu , Yang Zhang

Inflation in cosmology is a specific stage preceding the Big Bang, aimed at solving both old background problems and new perturbation issues. Single-field inflation is a candidate to illustrate the picture of the initial universe, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Guanqiao Liu

In this paper we will discuss analytically the perturbations created from a slowly rolling subdominant spectator field which decays much before the end of inflation. The quantum fluctuations of such a spectator field can seed perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-25 Lingfei Wang , Anupam Mazumdar