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Transforming canonical scalars to the Einstein frame can give a multi-field generalization of pole inflation (namely, a scalar with a divergent kinetic term) at vanishing field-dependent Planck mass. However, to obtain an attractor, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Sotirios Karamitsos , Alessandro Strumia

We propose a new framework for multi-field inflation in which a nearly constant potential energy is maintained during inflation before decreasing rapidly, in a manner analogous to a classical top spinning upright for a long time before…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-27 Alejandro Jenkins , Takemichi Okui

We revisit the recently proposed mechanism of Geometric Inflation. On general grounds, we show that obtaining the right amount of inflation demands an exceedingly large initial energy density. We introduce a scalar field and study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-06 Jose D. Edelstein , David Vázquez Rodríguez , Alejandro Vilar López

Hyperbolic inflation is an extension of the slow-roll inflation in multi-field models. We extend hyperbolic inflation by adding a gauge field and find four-type attractor solutions: slow-roll inflation, hyperbolic inflation, anisotropic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Chong-Bin Chen , Jiro Soda

Recent years have seen the introduction of various multi-field inflationary scenarios in which the curvature and geodesics of the scalar manifold play a crucial role. We outline a simple description that unifies these different proposals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 Perseas Christodoulidis , Diederik Roest , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

We study the cosmology in the presence of arbitrary couplings between $p$-forms in 4-dimensional space-time for a general action respecting gauge symmetry and parity invariance. The interaction between 0-form (scalar field $\phi$) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-15 Juan P. Beltrán Almeida , Alejandro Guarnizo , Ryotaro Kase , Shinji Tsujikawa , César A. Valenzuela-Toledo

We prove that the stochastic and standard field-theoretical approaches produce exactly the same results for the amount of light massive scalar field fluctuations generated during inflation in the leading order of the slow-roll…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-10 F. Finelli , G. Marozzi , A. A. Starobinsky , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

Nonminimal coupling of the inflaton field to the Ricci curvature of spacetime is generally unavoidable, and the paradigm of inflation should be generalized by including the corresponding term in the Lagrangian of the inflationary theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Valerio Faraoni

We describe an induced inflation, which refers to a class of inflationary models with a generalized non-minimal coupling $\xi g(\phi) R$ and a specific scalar potential. The defining property of these models is that the scalar field takes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Diederik Roest

We investigate the inflationary attractors in models of inflation inspired from general conformal transformation of general scalar-tensor theories to the Einstein frame. The coefficient of the conformal transformation in our study depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-31 Khamphee Karwan , Phongpichit Channuie

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

We study the possibility that inflation is driven by a scalar field together with a vector field minimally coupled to gravity. By assuming an effective potential that incorporates both fields into the action, we explore two distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza , Ramon Herrera

We compute the amplitude of the non-Gaussianities in inflationary models with multiple, uncoupled scalar fields. This calculation thus applies to all models of assisted inflation, including N-flation, where inflation is driven by multiple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Thorsten Battefeld , Richard Easther

In this article, our prime objective is to study the inflationary paradigm from generalized tachyon (GTachyon) living on the world volume of a non-BPS string theory. The tachyon action is considered here is getting modified compared to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-23 Sayantan Choudhury , Sudhakar Panda

We consider an alternative warm inflationary scenario in which $n$ scalar fields coupled to a dissipative matter fluid cooperate to produce power--law inflation. The scalar fields are driven by an exponential potential and the bulk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Luis P. Chimento , Alejandro S. Jakubi , Diego Pavón , Norberto A. Zuccala

We study constant-roll inflation in the presence of a gauge field coupled to an inflaton. By imposing the constant anisotropy condition, we find new exact anisotropic constant-roll inflationary solutions which include anisotropic power-law…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-13 Asuka Ito , Jiro Soda

We study the contribution of spectator massive scalar fields to the inflationary density perturbations through the universal gravitational coupling. We find that such contribution has several remarkable properties: it does not decrease as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-03 Xingang Chen , Yi Wang

Anomalies in recent observational data indicate that there might be some "anisotropic hair" generated in an inflation period. To obtain general information about the effects of this anisotropic hair to inflation models, we studied…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 Jiaming Shi , Xiaotian Huang , Taotao Qiu

A computation of the inflationary observables n_{s} and r is made for `logamediate' inflation where the cosmological scale factor expands as $a=\exp (A(\ln t)^{\lambda})$, and is compared to their predicted values in the intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John D. Barrow , N. J. Nunes

A bidimensional parameter space of unitary area is introduced to study phenomenologically the dynamic and thermodynamic behavior of inflationary models driven by a scalar field coupled to a thermal component. In this enlarged context the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 J. M. F. Maia , J. A. S. Lima