Theoretical and observational aspects of cosmological inflation

Abstract

This thesis piles up the results of five works in the field of cosmological inflation, inflationary cosmological perturbations, cosmic microwave background(CMB) and weak gravitational lensing of cosmic microwave background.

arXiv commentPHD thesis defended on 20/11/2014 at Jadavpur University, 124 Pages and 22 Figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0906.0664, arXiv:hep-ph/0210162 by other authors

References in corpus (85)

• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Three Year Results: Implications for Cosmology
• de Sitter Vacua in String Theory
• Non-Gaussian features of primordial fluctuations in single field inflationary models
• Exponential potentials and cosmological scaling solutions
• Hybrid Inflation
• An All-Sky Analysis of Polarization in the Microwave Background
• Weak Gravitational Lensing of the CMB
• Signature of Gravity Waves in Polarization of the Microwave Background
• Brane Inflation
• Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity Waves and String Inflation
• Cosmic Evolution in a Cyclic Universe
• Warm Inflation
• The Cold Dark Matter Density Perturbation
• Formalising the Slow-Roll Approximation in Inflation
• Second-Order Cosmological Perturbations from Inflation
• Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background using DASI
• A more accurate analytic calculation of the spectrum of cosmological perturbations produced during inflation
• From Big Crunch to Big Bang
• Natural Inflation: Particle Physics Models, Power Law Spectra for Large Scale Structure, and Constraints from COBE
• The Inflationary Brane-Antibrane Universe
• Completing Natural Inflation
• Supersymmetry Breaking in the Early Universe
• Chaotic inflation on the brane
• Gravitational Lensing Effect on Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization
• Assisted inflation
• Hilltop Inflation
• COBE, Gravitational Waves, Inflation and Extended Inflation
• On the Generation of a Scale-Invariant Spectrum of Adiabatic Fluctuations in Cosmological Models with a Contracting Phase
• Inflation and squeezed quantum states
• The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmological parameters from three seasons of data
• A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey
• Detection of B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope
• Matter Bounce in Horava-Lifshitz Cosmology
• A limit on the detectability of the energy scale of inflation
• TASI Lectures on Inflation
• Constraints on Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum of the 2500 ${\mathrm{deg}}^2$ SPT-SZ Survey
• On Non-Gaussianity in the Curvaton Scenario
• Gravitational lensing as a contaminant of the gravity wave signal in CMB
• Fast estimation of polarization power spectra using correlation functions
• Brane Gases in the Early Universe
• Multiple inflation
• Measuring Statistical isotropy of the CMB anisotropy
• The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: likelihood for small-scale CMB data
• Evolution of second-order cosmological perturbations
• Pyrotechnic Universe
• Primordial perturbations in a non singular bouncing universe model
• Primordial fluctuations and non-Gaussianities in multi-field DBI inflation
• Lensed CMB power spectra from all-sky correlation functions
• Non-gaussianity from the second-order cosmological perturbation
• Kinematic Constraints to the Key Inflationary Observables
• A Hamilton-Jacobi approach to non-slow-roll inflation
• Inflation and the Theory of Cosmological Perturbations
• Some Aspects of Brane Inflation
• Phenomenology of D-Brane Inflation with General Speed of Sound
• Inflationary Perturbations: the Cosmological Schwinger Effect
• A non inflationary model with scale invariant cosmological perturbations
• Inflationary Theory and Alternative Cosmology
• Inflationary Cosmological Perturbations of Quantum-Mechanical Origin
• Inflationary spectra and violations of Bell inequalities
• Density perturbations in the brane-world
• Analogue of cosmological particle creation in an ion trap
• On: Natural Inflation
• Generating the Curvature Perturbation at the End of Inflation in String Theory
• Correlation Functions of CMB Anisotropy and Polarization
• Efficient Cosmological Parameter Estimation with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
• A classical bounce: constraints and consequences
• A combined analysis of 3D Weak Lensing, Lyman-alpha forest and WMAP year three data
• Weak Lensing Detection in CMB Maps
• Proposal for measurment of harmonic oscillator Berry phase in ion traps
• The spectrum of curvature perturbations from hybrid inflation
• Natural Inflation: the status after WMAP 3-year data
• Quantum fluctuations in brane-world inflation without inflaton on the brane
• Statistical techniques in cosmology
• An Inflaton Candidate in Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
• Mutated Hilltop Inflation : A Natural Choice for Early Universe
• F-term, D-term and hybrid brane inflation
• Gravity and Geometric Phases
• Microwave Anisotropies in the Light of COBE
• Geometric Phase in Vacuum Instability:APPLICATIONS in Quantum Cosmology
• Natural inflation at the GUT scale
• An introduction to inflation and cosmological perturbation theory
• The Quantum State of Inflationary Perturbations
• Spinodal effect in the natural inflation model
• Higher order terms in the inflaton potential and the lower bound on the tensor to scalar ratio r
• Towards reconstruction of unlensed, intrinsic CMB power spectra from lensed map