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We have considered the perturbation equations governing the growth of fluctuations in generalized scalar tensor theory during inflation. we have found that the scalar metric perturbations at very early times are negligible compared with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 S. Cheraghchi , F. Shojai

We develop a nonperturbative method through the Hartree factorization to examine the quantum fluctuation effects on the single-field inflationary models in a spatially flat FRW cosmological space-time. Apart from the background field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Shu-Lin Cheng , Da-Shin Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

We investigate the cosmological perturbation of two-scalar field model during the reheating phase after inflation. Using the exact solution of the perturbation in long-wavelength limit, which is expressed in terms of the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Taruya , Y. Nambu

The dynamics of both the preinflationary and the preheating epochs for a model consisting of a Higgs inflaton plus an additional auxiliary field are studied in full General Relativity. The minimally coupled auxiliary field allows for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Cristian Joana

Extending our previous work on the robustness of inflation to perturbations in the scalar field, we investigate the effects of perturbations in the transverse traceless part of the extrinsic curvature on the evolution of an inhomogeneous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-12 Katy Clough , Raphael Flauger , Eugene A. Lim

We study reheating in some one and two field realizations of {\it Fibre Inflation}. We find that reheating begins with a phase of preheating in which long wavelength fluctuation modes are excited. In two field models there is a danger that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-05 Bao-Min Gu , Robert Brandenberger

We propose a new version of the hybrid inflation scenario that produces a significantly tilted n>1 spectrum of curvature perturbations. This may happen in supersymmetric models where the inflaton field acquires a mass proportional to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Andrei Linde

We show that in scalar field inflationary models, the loop corrections in reheating corresponding to the decay of the inflaton can cause nontrivial superhorizon evolution of the curvature perturbation. The effect turns out to be prominent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Ali Kaya

Preheating following the inflationary phase in models of open inflation is considered. The most significant difference from a preheating scenario in flat space is that supercurvature modes can be populated and amplified in the open…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David I. Kaiser

The prediction of a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of curvature and tensor fluctuations is among the main features of cosmic inflation. The current measurements of the primordial fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Aline Pereyra-Flores

Whereas preheating after chaotic and hybrid inflation models has been abundantly studied in the literature, preheating in small field inflation models, where the curvature of the inflaton potential is negative during inflation, remains less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Philippe Brax , Jean-Francois Dufaux , Sophie Mariadassou

The spectrum of cosmological perturbations in the context of the one-bubble open inflation model is discussed, taking into account fluctuations of the metric. We find that, quite generically,thin wall single field models have no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-09 Jaume Garriga , Xavier Montes , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

In this paper, we introduce a weak, transient and periodical derivative coupling between the inflaton field and gravity, and find that the square of the sound speed of the curvature perturbations becomes a periodic function, which results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-30 Li-Yang Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

In the framework of chaotic inflation we study the case of a massive scalar field using a semiclassical approach. We derive the energy density fluctuations in the infrared sector generated by matter field and gauge-invariant metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 F. Lara , F. Astorga , M. Bellini

We consider the simple inflationary model with peculiarity in the form of "plateau" in the inflaton potential. We use the formalism of coarse-grained field to describe the production of metric perturbations $h$ of an arbitrary amplitude and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Ivanov

Cosmological $\alpha$-attractors stand out as particularly compelling models to describe inflation in the very early universe, naturally meeting tight observational bounds from cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. We investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Laura Iacconi , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Matteo Fasiello , David Wands

After introducing gauge-invariant cosmological perturbation theory we give an improved set of governing equations for multiple fluids including energy transfer. Having defined adiabatic and entropic perturbations we derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karim A. Malik

Fluctuations of scalar fields produced at the stage of preheating after inflation are so large that they can break supersymmetry much stronger than inflation itself. These fluctuations may lead to symmetry restoration along flat directions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Greg. W. Anderson , Andrei Linde , Antonio Riotto

We investigated the possibility that nonlinear gravitational effects influence the preheating era after inflation, using numerical solutions of the inhomogeneous Einstein field equations. We compared our results to perturbative calculations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Matthew Parry , Richard Easther

The Unruh effect, predicting a thermal reservoir for accelerating systems, calls for a more refined understanding of measurement processes involving quantum systems as thermometers. Conventional models fail to account for the inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 M. Cardi , P. Solinas , N. Zanghì