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most citedTesting scale-invariant inflation against cosmological data

15 citations · 21 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

gr-qc2026

The unavoidable de Sitter fate of a scale-invariant Universe

Chiara Cecchini, Massimiliano Rinaldi

We consider a very general scale-invariant scalar-tensor theory of gravity and its flat cosmological solutions. We show that any stable configuration with non-degenerate gravitatio…

astro-ph.CO2026

Are PTA measurements sensitive to gravitational wave non-Gaussianities?

Chiara Cecchini, Jonas El Gammal, Gabriele Franciolini +1

Observing non-Gaussianities in the timing residuals of Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) has recently attracted attention as a potential discriminator between astrophysical and cosmologi…

astro-ph.CO2025

Forecasting Constraints on SIGW with Future Pulsar Timing Array Observations

Chiara Cecchini, Gabriele Franciolini, Mauro Pieroni

Pulsar Timing Arrays are playing a crucial role in the ongoing gravitational wave astronomy revolution. The current evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) a…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Tracing cosmic stretch marks: probing scale invariance in the early Universe

Mariaveronica De Angelis, Chiara Cecchini, Massimiliano Rinaldi

This paper investigates a scale-invariant inflationary model characterized by a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity and a curvature term quadratic in the Ricci scalar. Th…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 15 cited

Testing scale-invariant inflation against cosmological data

Chiara Cecchini, Mariaveronica De Angelis, William Giarè +2

There is solid theoretical and observational motivation behind the idea of scale-invariance as a fundamental symmetry of Nature. We consider a recently proposed classically scale-i…

gr-qc2023★ 5 cited

Scale-invariant inflation

Massimiliano Rinaldi, Chiara Cecchini, Anish Ghoshal +1

We examine a scalar-tensor model of gravity that is globally scale-invariant. When adapted to a spatially flat Robertson-Walker metric, the equations of motion describe a dynamical…

astro-ph.CO2023

Inflationary helical magnetic fields with a sawtooth coupling

Chiara Cecchini, Massimiliano Rinaldi

We study the generation of helical magnetic fields during inflation by considering a model which does not suffer from strong coupling or large back-reaction. Electromagnetic confor…