Initial conditions for inflation—A short review

R Brandenberger - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2017 - World Scientific
I give a brief review of the status of research on the nature of initial conditions required to
obtain a period of cosmological inflation. It is shown that there is good evidence that in the …

New shape for cross-bispectra in Chern-Simons gravity

P Christodoulidis, JO Gong, WC Lin… - … of Cosmology and …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Chern-Simons gravity is known to suffer from graviton ghost production during inflation,
which suppresses the parity-violating power spectrum at scales relevant to cosmic …

Constraining the quintessential α-attractor inflation through dynamical horizon exit method

A Sarkar, B Ghosh - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present paper, we perform a sub-Planckian quantum mode analysis of linear
cosmological perturbation in the inflaton field over a classical quasi de-Siter metric …

Unsuppressed primordial standard clocks in warm quasi-single field inflation

X Tong, Y Wang, S Zhou - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the non-Gaussianities in quasi-single field inflation with a warm inflation
background. The thermal effects at small scales can sufficiently enhance the magnitude of …

Massive scalar field evolution in de Sitter

T Markkanen, A Rajantie - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract The behaviour of a massive, non-interacting and non-minimally coupled quantised
scalar field in an expanding de Sitter background is investigated by solving the field …

Quantum simulation of cosmic inflation

J Liu, YZ Li - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
In this paper, we generalize Jordan-Lee-Preskill, an algorithm for simulating flat-space
quantum field theories, to 3+ 1 dimensional inflationary spacetime. The generalized …

Early Dark Energy Motivated Quintessential -Attractor Inflaton Potential

A Sarkar, B Ghosh - arxiv preprint arxiv:2307.00603, 2023 - arxiv.org
We construct a new model of quintessential $\alpha $-attractor inflation in conjunction with
the features of non-oscillating early dark energy (EDE). Slow-roll plateau of this model is …

Quantum cosmic no-hair theorem and inflation

N Kaloper, J Scargill - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We consider implications of the quantum extension of the inflationary no-hair theorem. We
show that when the quantum state of inflation is picked to ensure the validity of the effective …

On iϵ prescription in cosmology

A Kaya - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This is a technical note on the i epsilon prescription in cosmology where we consider a self-
interacting scalar field in the Poincare patch of the de Sitter space whose Hamiltonian has …

Cosmic decoherence: massive fields

J Liu, CM Sou, Y Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We study the decoherence of massive fields during inflation based on the Zurek's
density matrix approach. With the cubic interaction between inflaton and massive fields, the …