CMB polarization rotation emerges as a Pancharatnam phase localized at dark sector vacuum interfaces, independent of redshift, frequency, and the presence of light axions.
A Natural Framework for Chaotic Inflation
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We show that inflation with a quadratic potential occurs naturally in theories where an axion-like field mixes with a 4-form. Such an axion is massive, with the mass which arises from the mixing being protected by the axion shift symmetry. The 4-form backgrounds break this symmetry spontaneously and comprise a mini-landscape, where their fluxes can change by emission of membranes. Inflation can begin when the 4-form dominates the energy density. Eventually this energy is reduced by membrane emission and the axion can roll slowly towards its minimum, as in the simplest version of chaotic inflation.
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The authors construct a massive propagating scalar for coupling constants via a defect-based kinetic term that preserves conserved charges and original black hole solutions on constant-coupling configurations.
A mechanism is proposed where the CP violating phase relaxes in discrete steps via nucleation of membranes that discharge the magnetic dual of a 4-form flux, with bubbles colliding and percolating near the chiral symmetry breaking scale during radiation domination.
One-loop integration of a heavy fermion with inflaton-dependent mass in axion inflation generates localized gauge-field production and a detectable chiral gravitational-wave signal in the deci-hertz range.
Derives conditions on branch parameters for controlled inflationary plateaus in penumbral monodromic valleys, with an exactly solvable family targeting r ~ 10^{-3} and alpha_s ~ -r/2.
Including spectral running α_s, β_s and self-interacting dark radiation relaxes the ACT DR6 bound on ΔN_eff to <0.58 and lowers the Hubble tension to 2.2σ with three extra parameters.
Lecture notes providing an advanced introduction to primordial inflation theory and perturbation theory in slow-roll and quasi-de Sitter spacetimes.
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Controlled Penumbral Inflation from Monodromic Valleys
Derives conditions on branch parameters for controlled inflationary plateaus in penumbral monodromic valleys, with an exactly solvable family targeting r ~ 10^{-3} and alpha_s ~ -r/2.