6 papers
Tachyonic Encore: A universal shift of inflationary observables
Diogo S. Gorgulho, Margherita Putti, Rodrigo Gonzalez Quaglia +3
We propose a generic, largely inflaton-potential-independent mechanism in which a light axion spectator, initialized near the hilltop of its potential, reshapes inflationary observ…
Universal Non-Gaussian Signatures from Transient Instabilities
Shuntaro Aoki, Diederik Roest, Denis Werth
We identify universal signatures in the bispectrum arising from a transient tachyonic instability of entropic fluctuations during inflation, a phenomenon that naturally arises in h…
ACT, SPT, and chaotic inflation
Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Diederik Roest
We show that the simplest generalization of the chaotic inflation model with nonminimal coupling to gravity provides a good match to the results…
Post-inflationary enhancement of adiabatic perturbations in modular cosmology
Rodrigo Gonzalez Quaglia, Martino Michelotti, Diederik Roest +3
We show that multi-field inflationary models with negligible turning in field space during inflation can lead to an effective sourcing of adiabatic from entropic perturbations {\it…
Axion Stabilization in Modular Cosmology
John Joseph Carrasco, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde +1
The invariant -attractor models have plateau potentials with respect to the inflaton and axion fields. The potential in the axion direction is almost exactly…
Kinetic Gauge Friction in Natural Inflation
Martino Michelotti, Rodrigo Gonzalez Quaglia, Ema Dimastrogiovanni +2
We study an extension of the natural inflation model comprising a non-Abelian gauge sector coupled to the axion-inflaton kinetic term. We show how such non-minimal coupling serves…