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Recent cosmological observations, including the latest Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data releases DR1 and DR2, have renewed interest in the possibility that dark energy may exhibit dynamical behavior rather than being a…

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The first year WMAP measurement of the CMB temperature anisotropy is intriguingly consistent with a larger running of the inflationary scalar spectral index than would be expected for single-field inflation. We revisit the issue of a large…

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One of the major goals of the field of Milky Way dynamics is to recover the gravitational potential field. Mapping the potential would allow us to determine the spatial distribution of matter - both baryonic and dark - throughout the…

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We derive general analytic formulae for the power spectrum and spectral index of the curvature perturbation produced during inflation driven by a multi-component inflaton field, up to the second order in the slow-roll approximation. We do…

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Density functional theory offers a very accurate way of computing materials properties from first principles. However, it is too expensive for modelling large-scale molecular systems whose properties are, in contrast, computed using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Alexander V. Shapeev

We calculate analytically the bubble nucleation rate in a model of first order inflation which is able to produce large scale structure. The computation includes the first-order departure from the thin-wall limit, the explicit derivation of…

In order to reconstruct the initial conditions of the universe it is important to devise a method that can efficiently constrain the shape of the power spectrum of primordial matter density fluctuations in a model-independent way from data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pia Mukherjee , Yun Wang

Recent cosmological observations are in good agreement with the scalar spectral index $n_s$ with $n_s-1\sim -2/N$, where $N$ is the number of e-foldings. Quadratic chaotic model, Starobinsky model and Higgs inflation or $\alpha$-attractors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 Takeshi Chiba

This paper describes a general program for deriving the action of single field inflation models with nonstandard kinetic energy terms using CMBR power spectrum data. This method assumes that an action depends on a set of undetermined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Christopher S. Gauthier , Ratindranath Akhoury

Comparison of theobservedanisotropy with that predicted iadiabaticDM models suggest that much of thserved signal may be due to long wavelenh gravitational waves. In inflationary models this requires the generation of tensor fluctuations to…

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We present a new model of inflation in which the inflaton is the extra component of a gauge field in a 5d theory compactified on a circle. The chief merit of this model is that the potential comes only from non-local effects so that its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Hsin-Chia Cheng , Paolo Creminelli , Lisa Randall

We point out that if quantum field renormalization is taken into account, and the counterterms are evaluated at the Hubble-radius crossing time or few e-foldings after it, the predictions of slow-roll inflation for both the scalar and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 Ivan Agullo , Jose Navarro-Salas , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Leonard Parker

We consider a class of inflationary models with small oscillations imprinted on an otherwise smooth inflaton potential. These oscillations are manifest as oscillations in the power spectrum of primordial perturbations, which then give rise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cédric Pahud , Marc Kamionkowski , Andrew R Liddle

We consider the reconstruction technique in theories with a single or multiple (phantom and/or canonical) scalar fields. With the help of several examples, it is demonstrated explicitly that the universe expansion history, unifying…

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During the inflationary epoch, we investigate the reconstruction of the background variables within the framework of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, considering the scalar spectral index $n_s(N)$ and the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r(N)$, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Ramón Herrera , Carlos Ríos

We derive some new constraints on single-field inflation from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 3-year data combined with the Sloan Luminous Red Galaxy survey. Our work differs from previous analyses by focusing only on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Julien Lesgourgues , Wessel Valkenburg

In the cosmic microwave background or galaxy density maps, missing fluctuations in masked regions can be reconstructed from fluctuations in the surrounding unmasked regions if the original fluctuations are sufficiently smooth. One…

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We study the phenomenological constraints on a recently proposed model of open inflation in the context of induced gravity. The main interest of this model is the relatively small number of parameters, which may be constrained by many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Andrew R Liddle

We show how to reconstruct a field theory from the spectrum of bound states on a topological defect. We apply our recipe to the case of kinks in 1+1 dimensions with one or two bound states. Our recipe successfully yields the sine-Gordon and…

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