[HTML][HTML] Inflationary interpretation of the stochastic gravitational wave background signal detected by pulsar timing array experiments

S Vagnozzi - Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Various pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments (NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, CPTA, including
data from InPTA) very recently reported evidence for excess red common-spectrum signals …

Primordial gravitational waves from NANOGrav: A broken power-law approach

M Benetti, LL Graef, S Vagnozzi - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We revisit the possibility that the stochastic common-spectrum process recently detected by
the NANOGrav pulsar timing array experiment could be due to primordial gravitational …

Implications of the NANOGrav results for inflation

S Vagnozzi - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The NANOGrav pulsar timing array experiment reported evidence for a stochastic common-
spectrum process affecting pulsar timing residuals in its 12.5-yr data set, which might be …

Early dark energy resolution to the Hubble tension in light of weak lensing surveys and lensing anomalies

R Murgia, GF Abellán, V Poulin - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
A constant early dark energy (EDE) component contributing a fraction f EDE (zc)∼ 10% of
the energy density of the universe around zc≃ 3500 and diluting as or faster than radiation …

News from the Swampland—constraining string theory with astrophysics and cosmology

N Schöneberg, L Vacher, JDF Dias… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Our current best guess for a unified theory of gravitation and quantum field theory (string
theory) generically predicts a set of requirements for a consistently quantized theory, the …

Multi-field cold and warm inflation and the de Sitter swampland conjectures

O Bertolami, PM Sa - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss under which conditions multi-field cold and warm inflationary models with
canonical kinetic energy terms are compatible with the swampland conjectures about the …

Constant-roll brane inflation

A Mohammadi, T Golanbari, S Nasri, K Saaidi - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The scenario of constant-roll inflation in the frame of the Randall-Sundraum II (RS II) brane
gravity model is considered. Based on the scenario, the smallness of the second slow-roll …

Obstacles to constructing de Sitter space in string theory

M Dine, JAP Law-Smith, S Sun, D Wood… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract There have been many attempts to construct de Sitter space-times in string theory.
While arguably there have been some successes, this has proven challenging, leading to …

Swampland, trans-Planckian censorship and fine-tuning problem for inflation: tunnelling wavefunction to the rescue

S Brahma, R Brandenberger… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The trans-Planckian censorship conjecture implies that single-field models of inflation
require an extreme fine-tuning of the initial conditions due to the very low-scale of inflation …

How a four-dimensional de Sitter solution remains outside the swampland

K Dasgupta, M Emelin, MM Faruk, R Tatar - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We argue that, in the presence of time-dependent fluxes and quantum corrections,
four-dimensional de Sitter solutions should appear in the type IIB string landscape and not in …