Fresh Inflation Research Articles

Natural exit of fresh inflation to a radiation dominated universe

We examine the transition from a fresh inflationary scenario to a radiation dominated universe when the inflaton field is coupled to gravity. We show that this transition is very natural when this coupling is ξ = 1/4 at the end of fresh inflation. This is a very important result that shows as fresh inflation has a natural exit to the radiation dominated epoch.

Fresh inflation with increasing cosmological parameter

I study a fresh inflationary model with an increasing F-cosmological parameter. The model provides sufficiently e-folds to solve the flatness/horizon problem and the density fluctuations agree with experimental values. The temperature increases during fresh inflation and reach its maximum value when inflation ends. I find that entropy perturbations always remain below $10^{-4}$ during fresh inflation and become negligible when fresh inflation ends. Hence, the adiabatic fluctuations dominate the primordial spectrum at the end of fresh inflation.

Fresh Inflation from Five-Dimensional Vacuum State

I study fresh inflation from a five-dimensional vacuum state, where the fifth dimension is constant. In this framework, the universe can be seen as inflating in a four-dimensional FRW metric embedding in a five-dimensional metric. Finally, the experimental data $n_s=1$ are consistent with $(p+\rho_t)/\rho_t \simeq1/3$ in the fresh inflationary scenario.

Fresh Inflation with Nonminimally Coupled Inflaton Field

I study a fresh inflationary model with a scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity. An example is examined. I find that, as larger is the value of p (a ∼ tp), as smaller (but larger in its absolute value) is the necessary value of the coupling ξ to the inflaton field fluctuations can satisfy a scale invariant power spectrum.

Baryogenesis in Fresh Inflation

I study the possibility of baryogenesis can take place in fresh inflation. I find that it is possible that violation of baryon number conservation can occur during the period out-of-equilibrium in this scenario. Indeed, baryogenesis could be possible before the thermal equilibrium is restored at the end of fresh inflation.

Fresh inflation and decoherence of super Hubble fluctuations

I study a stochastic approach to the recently introduced fresh inflation model for super Hubble scales. I find that the state loses its coherence at the end of the fresh inflationary period as a consequence of the damping of the interference function in the reduced density matrix. This fact should be a consequence of a) the relative evolutions of both the scale factor and the horizon and b) the additional thermal and dissipative effects. This implies a relevant difference with respect to supercooled inflationary scenarios which require a very rapid expansion of the scale factor to give the decoherence of super Hubble fluctuations.

Fresh inflation: A warm inflationary model from a zero temperature initial state

A two-component mixture fluid which complies with the gamma law is considered in the framework of inflation with finite temperature. The model is developed for a quartic scalar potential without symmetry breaking. The radiation energy density is assumed to be zero when inflation starts and remains below the grand unified theory (GUT) temperature during the inflationary stage. Furthermore, it provides the necessary number of e folds and sufficient radiation energy density so GUT baryogenesis can take place near the minimum energetic configuration.