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Compaction function in stochastic inflation: a \texttt{FOREST} of type I and II primordial black holes
Chiara Animali, Pierre Auclair, Baptiste Blachier +2
We show how to compute the compaction function within stochastic inflation, by solving the random field dynamics on stochastic binary trees. In this framework, the compaction funct…
Comment on: "Third-order corrections to the slow-roll expansion: Calculation and constraints with Planck, ACT, SPT, and BICEP/Keck [2025 PDU 47 101813]"
Pierre Auclair, Christophe Ringeval
We point out that several terms in the third-order corrections to the slow-roll power spectra presented by Ballardini et al. [1] are incorrect. The authors of that work claim that…
Excursion-set for Primordial Black Holes I: white noise and moving barrier
Pierre Auclair, Baptiste Blachier, Vincent Vennin
In the excursion-set formalism, the mass distribution of primordial black holes (PBHs) is derived from the first-passage time of a random walk describing the density contrast as th…