4 papers
The cosmology of long range Yukawa interactions in general backgrounds
Guillem Dom`enech, Panagiotis Giannadakis
Long-range forces in the early universe may lead to early structure formation and, perhaps, to primordial black holes. We generalise previous studies of fermions coupled to a light…
Non-linear Dynamics and Primordial Black Hole Formation During Kination
Cheng Cheng, Panagiotis Giannadakis, Lucien Heurtier +1
We investigate the effects of large scalar inhomogeneities during the kination epoch, a period in which the universe's dynamics are dominated by the kinetic energy of a scalar fiel…
A critical value of the inflationary tensor-to-scalar ratio from inhomogeneous inflation
Panagiotis Giannadakis, Matthew Elley, Raphael Flauger +1
We show that, for a given fixed value of the number of e-folds of the homogeneous solution, inflation succeeds with order unity inhomogeneities in the initial conditions above a ch…
Robustness of inflation to kinetic inhomogeneities
Matthew Elley, Josu C. Aurrekoetxea, Katy Clough +3
We investigate the effects of large inhomogeneities in both the inflaton field and its momentum. We find that in general, large kinetic perturbations reduce the number of e-folds o…