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There is increasing evidence from string theory that effective field theories are only reliable over approximately sub-Planckian field excursions. The two most promising effective models for early universe cosmology, inflation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Jean-Luc Lehners

The presence of light scalars can have profound effects on early universe cosmology, influencing its thermal history as well as paradigms like inflation and baryogenesis. Effective supergravity provides a framework to make quantifiable,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kuver Sinha

We present a covariant framework of kinematics in the dS spacetime, which is a natural postulate of recent astronomical observations ($\Lambda>0)$. One-particle states are presented explicitly. It is noticed that the dispersion relation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhe Chang , Shao-Xia Chen , Cheng-Bo Guan

In this paper we aim to investigate a deformed relativistic dynamics well-known as Symmetrical Special Relativity (SSR) related to a cosmic background field that plays the role of a variable vacuum energy density associated to the…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Claudio Nassif Cruz , Fernando A. Silva

We propose a new consistency condition for the compatibility of a gravitational effective field theory in AdS with a dual holographic description in terms of a family of large-$N$ CFTs. Using large-$N$ factorization of correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Nikolay Bobev , Hynek Paul , Filippo Revello

We review cosmology in non-minimal Yang-Mills/Maxwell theory, in which the Yang-Mills/electromagnetic field couples to a function of the scalar curvature. We show that power-law inflation can be realized due to the non-minimal gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-09 Kazuharu Bamba , Shin'ichi Nojiri

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the high-energy behavior of colorless dipole elastic scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM gauge theory through the Wilson loop correlator formalism and Euclidean to Minkowskian analytic continuation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-16 Matteo Giordano , Robi Peschanski

We search for viable f(R) theories of gravity, making use of the equivalence between such theories and scalar-tensor gravity. We find that models can be made consistent with solar system constraints either by giving the scalar a high mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Faulkner , Max Tegmark , Emory F. Bunn , Yi Mao

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to perform a numerical study of a phase transition in strongly-coupled large-Nc N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory on a 3-sphere coupled to a finite number Nf of massive N = 2 hypermultiplets in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Karch , Andy O'Bannon

We derive the scalar potential in four spacetime dimensions from an eight-dimensional $(R+\gamma R^4-2\Lambda-F_4^2)$ gravity model in the presence of the 4-form $F_4$, with the (modified gravity) coupling constant $\gamma$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-03 Hiroshi Nakada , Sergei V. Ketov

In this article, we investigate scalar field cosmology in the coincident $f(Q)$ gravity formalism. We calculate the motion equations of $f(Q)$ gravity under the flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker background in the presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-12 Sayantan Ghosh , Raja Solanki , P. K. Sahoo

A detailed comparative qualitative analysis and numerical simulation of evolution of the cosmological models based on classical and phantom scalar fields with self-action was performed. The phase portraits of the dynamic systems of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Yurii Ignat'ev , Alexander Agathonov , Irina Kokh

In order to study the effect of the anti de Sitter/ conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT) on the primordial inflationary era, we consider a universe filled with a tachyon field in a slow-roll regime. In this context, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-14 Zahra Bouabdallaoui , Ahmed Errahmani , Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Taoufik Ouali

In recent years, the detection of gravitational waves by LIGO and PTA collaborations have raised the intriguing possibility of excess matter power at small scales. Such an increase can be achieved by ultra slow roll (USR) phase during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 H. V. Ragavendra , Anjan Kumar Sarkar , Shiv K. Sethi

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

We present a realistic scenario of tracking of scalar fields with varying equation of state. The astrophysical constraints on the evolution of scalar fields in the physical universe are discussed. The nucleosynthesis and the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Vinod B. Johri

In light of the most recent cosmological observations, we provide new updated constraints on the slow-roll inflation in different extended scenarios beyond the $\Lambda\rm{CDM}$ cosmological model. Along with the usual six parameters, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-25 Matteo Forconi , William Giarè , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri

We present a new mechanism for inflation which exhibits a speed limit on scalar motion, generating accelerated expansion even on a steep potential. This arises from explicitly integrating out the short modes of additional fields coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Dayshon Mathis , Alexandros Mousatov , George Panagopoulos , Eva Silverstein

In this work, we set up the theoretical framework and indicate future applications of symmetric Yang--Mills fields to cosmology. We analyze the coset space dimensional reduction scheme to construct pure Yang--Mills fields on spacetimes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Mahir Ertürk , Gabriel Picanço

We study dynamical aspects of holographic correspondence between d=5 anti-de Sitter supergravity and $d=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. We probe causality and locality of ambient spacetime from super Yang-Mills theory by studying transmission…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Dongsu Bak , Soo-Jong Rey