Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Ekaterina O. Pozdeeva, Augustin Tribolet, Alessandro Tronconi, Giovanni Venturi, Sergey Yu. Vernov
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Abstract
The superpotential method is a reconstruction technique which has proven useful to build exact cosmological solutions. We here employ the superpotential method in order to reconstruct the features necessary for the inflaton potential to drive inflation and lead to the amplification of the curvature perturbations. Such an amplification, at wavelengths shorter than those observed in the cosmic microwave background, is necessary in order to have a significant formation of primordial black holes after inflation ends. The technique is applied to the cases of a minimally coupled inflaton, to the nonminimal coupling case and to 𝑓(𝑅) theories of gravity. For such theories, a model dependent analysis of the features leading to the scalar spectrum enhancement is also presented.
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Physical Review D (PRD) is a leading journal in elementary particle physics, field theory, gravitation, and cosmology and is one of the top-cited journals in high-energy physics.
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