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Atri Deshamukhya

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arXiv2025

Warm Inflation in a Braneworld Scenario

In the literature, many warm inflationary models are formulated. In this piece of work, a warm inflationary model in the braneworld scenario is studied, considering constant and variable dissipation coefficients. Performance of the model has been considered in both strong and weak dissipative regimes. We study the dynamics of this scenario under slow-roll approximation and estimate cosmological observables, viz., the spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio. In order to constrain the parameters in our model, we consider data from Planck 2018 and BICEP.

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arXiv2025

Inflationary models in a minimally coupled $f(R,T)$ gravity: Constraints from $Planck$, BICEP/$Keck$, and ACT

The advent of high-precision cosmological observations has challenged many traditional inflationary models. Data from $Planck$ 2018 along with the BICEP/$Keck$ 2018 result have already ruled out most of the established models by placing tight constraints on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. Upcoming missions like LiteBIRD & CMB-S4 are expected to impose an even more stringent bound on $r$, potentially excluding further models from the viable landscape. In this evolving observational context, modified gravity theories offer a promising way to reconcile inflationary models with data. In this work, we explore several inflationary models, namely mutated hilltop inflation, D-brane inflation, and Woods-Saxon inflation, within the framework of $f(R,T)$ gravity. A minimally coupled and linear combination of Ricci scalar and trace of EM tensor is considered as $f(R,T)=R+16\pi G \lambda T$ and the cosmological observable parameters, viz. scalar spectral tilt $n_s$, tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$, and running of scalar spectral index $n_{sk}$ are estimated for the three models, and their trajectories are plotted in the $n_s-r$ plane. The model results are evaluated in light of the $Planck$, BICEP/$Keck$, DESI DR2, and ACT DR6 data. We observe that for a certain model parameter space, these potentials are viable within the current observational bounds.

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arXiv2025

Slow-roll Natural & Hilltop Inflation in Rastall Gravity

This study provides a concise analysis of inflation under Rastall gravity by examining three types of potential such as the power law, natural, and hilltop potentials. Choosing a minimal interaction between matter and gravity, we derived the modified slow-roll parameters, the scalar spectral index $(n_s)$, the tensor spectral index $(n_T)$, and the tensor-to-scalar ratio $(r)$. For a general power-law potential as well as for Natural & Hilltop inflation, we calculated these quantities and subsequently plotted their trajectories in the $(n_s, r)$ plane. For the power-law potential, only the cases $n = 2/3$ and $n = 1$ satisfy the observational constraint of the Planck 2018 data. The natural potential analysis shows that the mass scale is crucial, with better compatibility achieved at $f = 5M_{p}$ compared to $f = 10M_{p}$. Lastly, the Hilltop potential results indicate that among the cases studied $m = 3/2, 2, 3$, and $4$, only $m = 3/2$ exhibits marginal consistency with observational bounds, while the other cases fail to produce acceptable $(n_s - r)$ trajectories.

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arXiv2025

Quasinormal Modes, Grebody Factors, and Hawking Radiation Sparsity of Black Holes Influenced by a Global Monopole Charge in Kalb-Ramond Gravity

Kalb-Ramond (KR) gravity is an intriguing model incorporating local Lorentz violation, and black hole (BH) solutions are known to exist. In this study, we investigate some crucial aspects of BHs endowed with a global monopole charge in the self-interacting KR field. Specifically, we study the quasinormal modes (QNMs) corresponding to scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational perturbations; derive rigorous bounds for the greybody factors (GBFs); and examine the sparsity of Hawking radiation. The effects of the model parameters $\ell$ (Lorentz-violating parameter in KR gravity) and $\eta$ (monopole charge) on these phenomena are elaborated. First, QNMs are evaluated with high precision using the 13\textsuperscript{th}-order Pad\'{e}-averaged WKB method and cross-examined via time-domain analyses within an acceptable parameter space. The results show that the estimated QNMs are more sensitive to $\ell$; however, both model parameters influence the frequency spectra. The derived bounds on the GBFs aid in further constraining the parameter space. It is shown that $\ell$ and $\eta$ have a similar effect on the greybody bounds. Furthermore, positive and negative values of $\ell$ have opposing effects in that the bounds are reversed for the two cases. The analyses of the Hawking radiation sparsity highlight the effect of $\ell$, and two scenarios are noted: either the radiation emitted is less sparse than Hawking radiation, or it is more sparse during the evaporation phase. Thus, this work presents a comprehensive account of BHs in KR gravity with a global monopole charge.

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arXiv2024

Slow-roll Hilltop Inflation in $f(\phi,T)$ gravity

Over the last four decades, a number of modified gravity theories have been proposed to study cosmological phenomena as they can provide solutions for some of the shortcomings of Einstein's gravity in explaining early and late time accelerations of the observed Universe, the existence of dark matter, singularities at center of Black holes etc. The theoretical and observational challenges faced by the $\Lambda$CDM model also point towards the necessity for looking beyond General Relativity. In this direction, recently $f(\phi, T)$ gravity has been proposed in literature where the non-minimal coupling of the scalar field $\phi$ with the trace of energy-momentum tensor $T$ has been introduced in the Einstein-Hilbert action. Considering the Hilltop potential, we have studied the slow-roll inflation in the framework of $f(\phi, T)$ gravity. It is found that Hilltop inflationary models in $f(\phi, T)$ gravity are viable when seen in the light of latest Planck data.

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arXiv2024

Embedding Warm Natural Inflation in $f(\phi)T$ gravity

We study warm inflation in the framework of $f(\phi)T$ gravity, where $\phi$ is the inflaton and $T$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. The inflaton field is assumed to roll on the natural potential and the result is analyzed in light of Planck 2018 and BICEP/Keck 2021 data. We start our work by obtaining the field equations under slow-roll approximations. We then evaluate the scalar and tensor power spectra and their corresponding spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio with a temperature-dependent form of the dissipation coefficient during the inflationary era. We find that the warm inflation model in $f(\phi)T$ gravity is compatible with observational bands.

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arXiv2023

Traversable wormholes in $f(R)$ gravity sourced by a cloud of strings

Wormhole solutions in General Relativity (GR) require \textit{exotic} matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and it is well known that higher-order modifications of GR and some alternative matter sources can support wormholes. In this study, we explore the possibility of formulating traversable wormholes in $f(R)$ modified gravity, which is perhaps the most widely discussed modification of GR, with two approaches. First, to investigate the effects of geometrical constraints on the global characteristics, we gauge the $rr$-component of the metric tensor, and employ Pad\`{e} approximation to check whether a well-constrained \textit{shape function} can be formulated in this manner. We then derive the field equations with a background of string cloud, and numerically analyse the energy conditions, stability, and amount of exotic matter in this space-time. Next, as an alternative source in a simple $f(R)$ gravity model, we use the background cloud of strings to estimate the wormhole shape function, and analyse the relevant properties of the space-time. These results are then compared with those of wormholes threaded by normal matter in the simple $f(R)$ gravity model considered. The results demonstrate that wormholes with NEC violations are feasible; however, the wormhole space-times in the simple $f(R)$ gravity model are unstable.

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arXiv2023

Quasinormal Modes and Bounding Greybody Factors of GUP-corrected Black Holes in Kalb-Ramond Gravity

The vacuum expectation value of the non-minimally coupled Kalb-Ramond (KR) field leads to spontaneous local Lorentz symmetry violation, and static spherically symmetric solutions exist. In this study, we study the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of modified black holes in non--minimally coupled KR gravity. We employ a higher-order Pad\'e averaged WKB method to compute the QNMs for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational perturbations. In order to account for quantum corrections, we examine the geometric characteristics of the horizon and QNMs by introducing the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). Additionally, we shed light on the impact of the Lorentz violating parameters on our findings and estimate QNMs for different perturbations. Further, we estimate bounds on the greybody factors for the modified and GUP-corrected black holes. Our findings reveal the influence of the Lorentz violating parameters in the model on the QNM frequencies and their reliance on the GUP parameters.

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arXiv2022

Spherically symmetric wormholes in General Relativity and modified gravity with a Kalb-Ramond background

Among the several modified/extended gravity paradigms, the concept of antisymmetric connections leading to space-time torsion can be traced back to Cartan. More recently, developments in string theory have suggested the existence of a rank-2 self-interacting tensor field called the Kalb-Ramond field with similar outcomes, the field strength of which can support analytic wormhole-like solutions. However, detailed analyses of the physical properties of interest of such solutions are lacking. In this study, we comprehensively probe the properties of traversable Morris-Thorne like wormhole solutions sourced by the Kalb-Ramond field strength in both General Relativity (GR) and $f(R)$ and $f(R,T)$ modified gravity. We also analyze the coupling of the field strength in GR via a novel non-minimal interaction term in the action. Using suitable parametric constraints in all cases, we evaluate wormhole shape functions, numerically analyze the energy conditions near the throat, check the stability using the generalized Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation, and demonstrate the possibility of minimum exotic matter by estimating the volume integral quantifier. Our results show the existence of stable wormhole solutions in GR and a simple $f(R,T)$ gravity model, and unstable ones in a power-law type $f(R)$ gravity model.

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arXiv2022

Warm Inflation in $f(R,T)$ gravity

In this work, we explored warm inflation in the background of $f(R,T)$ gravity in the strong dissipation regime. Considering scalar field for FLRW universe, we derived modified field equations. We then deduced slow-roll parameters under slow-roll approximations followed by power spectrum for scalar and tensor perturbations and their corresponding spectral indices. We have considered Chaotic and Natural potentials and estimated scalar spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio for constant as well as variable dissipation factor $\Gamma$. We found that both the rejected potentials can be revived under the context of $f(R,T)$ gravity with suitable choice of the model parameters. Further, it is seen that within the warm inflationary scenario both the potentials are consistent with Planck 2018 bounds at the Planckian and sub Planckian energy scales.

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arXiv2022

Constraining logarithmic $f(R,T)$ model using Dark Energy density parameter $\Omega_{\Lambda}$ and Hubble parameter $H_0$

Of many extended theories of gravity, $f(R,T)$ gravity has gained reasonable interest in recent times as it provides interesting results in cosmology. Logarithmic corrections in modified theories of gravity has been studied extensively. In this work, we considered logarithmic correction to the trace term T and take the functional form as $f(R,T)=R + 16 \pi G \alpha \ln T$ where $\alpha$ is a free parameter. The free parameter is constrained using dark energy density parameter $\Omega_{\Lambda}$ and Hubble parameter $H_0$. The lower bound is found to be $\alpha \ge - 9.85 \times 10^{-29}$. The cosmological implications are also studied.

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arXiv2022

Masses of Heavy Flavour Mesons in a potential Model Approach with Wave Function containing Airy's Infinite Series

We report the masses of $B$ and $D$ sectors heavy-flavoured mesons obtained by using our recently developed meson wave function employing potential model approach with linear confinement term in potential as parent in the perturbation method. As the wave-function involves infinite Airy's polynomial series, in carrying out the mass calculation, to avoid divergences, we have introduced some cut-off parameter for inter-quark separation. Our results for ground state masses of heavy-flavoured $B$ and $D$ sector mesons are reasonably closer to the PDG masses.

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arXiv2022

Non-commutative Wormholes in $f(R)$ Gravity satisfying the Energy Conditions

Traversable wormholes in General Relativity (GR) require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior may be avoided in modified gravity. Moreover, the concept of non-commutative geometry as a gravitational source can be leveraged both in GR and modified gravity to realize non-trivial space-time configurations. In this study, we use $f(R)$ gravity in conjunction with non-commutative geometry to analyze spherically symmetric traversable Morris-Thorne wormhole solutions from the aspect of energy condition violation, considering both constant and variable red-shift functions. First, we use well constrained metric and model parameters in a viable $f(R)$ gravity model to demonstrate that wormholes respecting the NEC can be obtained with suitable choices of parameters. Additionally, we check the strong and dominant energy conditions to further validate our results. We then leverage non-commutative geometry in the framework of $f(R)$ gravity to show that wormholes respecting the different energy conditions with a phantom-like source can be realized with suitable choices of model parameters. Our comprehensive analyses using well-constrained model parameters show that wormholes satisfying the NEC can be realized in the framework of non-commutative geometry with modified gravity.

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arXiv2022

Effect of Dissipation on Warm Chromo-Natural Inflation

We examined the chromo-natural inflation in the context of warm inflation with variable dissipation coefficient. The dynamical equations of this model are obtained. We studied the cosmological perturbation theory in this model. The sources of density fluctuations in this model are mainly the thermal fluctuations of the inflaton field like general warm inflationary model. Finally, cosmological observables, namely, the spectral index and tensor to scalar ratio are calculated. It is found that the cosmological observables are consistent with observational data and the tensor to scalar ratio is smaller than that in the chromo-natural inflation.

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arXiv2022

Inflation in f(R,T) gravity with Double-Well potential

In this piece of work, we studied the inflation in the context of ${f(R,T)}$ theory of gravity. We assumed the functional form of ${f(R,T)}$ to be $R+ 16 \pi G \lambda T$, where R is the Ricci scalar, T is the trace of the Energy-Momentum tensor and $\lambda$ is the model parameter. The cosmological observable parameters like scalar spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ are estimated for Double-Well potential. We found that for $\lambda = 150$, $n_s$ and $r$ are in good agreement with Planck 2018 data. Further, considering the vacuum expectation value in Double-Well potential to be Planckian, we observed the admissible range of model parameter to be $145 < \lambda < 222$ for which this model remains consistent with Planck 2018 data.

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arXiv2021

New Wormhole Solutions in a Viable $f(R)$ Gravity Model

Traversable wormhole solutions in General Relativity require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior maybe avoided in modified gravity. In this study, we analyze the energy conditions for static, spherically symmetric traversable Morris-Thorne wormholes in a recently proposed viable $f(R)$ gravity model. We numerically analyze solutions considering both constant and variable redshift functions, and present wormhole space-times respecting the NEC, supported by a phantom energy-like equation of state for the source. Moreover, we analyze the stability of the space-times using the generalized Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equation. We demonstrate the effects of certain parameters in the $f(R)$ model in determining energy condition violations, and establish that stable wormholes can be formulated only at the expense of violating the NEC.

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arXiv2019

Traversable Wormholes in Higher Dimensional Theories of Gravity

Wormhole solutions in classical General Relativity are unstable and hence non traversable. Morris and Thorne discovered a traversable wormhole solution that required the energy momentum tensor of matter sources to violate various energy conditions and are out of the purview of the standard model of particle physics. The search for traversable wormhole solutions in Modified Theories of Gravity has been of significant interest in the decades after Morris and Thorne first published their results as such violations may be avoided in such theories. This work comprehensively reviews traversable wormhole solutions in modified theories of gravity with extra dimensions that satisfy the various energy conditions with an in depth look at the matter sources and the various constraints on the parameters of the theory to make the energy momentum of the matter sources respect the energy conditions.

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arXiv2018

Bogoliubov transformation and the thermal operator representation in the real time formalism

It has been shown earlier \cite{brandt,brandt1} that, in the mixed space, there is an unexpected simple relation between any finite temperature graph and its zero temperature counterpart through a multiplicative scalar operator (termed thermal operator) which carries the entire temperature dependence. This was shown to hold only in the imaginary time formalism and the closed time path ($\sigma=0$) of the real time formalism (as well as for its conjugate $\sigma=1$). We study the origin of this operator from the more fundamental Bogoliubov transformation which acts, in the momentum space, on the doubled space of fields in the real time formalisms \cite{takahashi,umezawa,pushpa}. We show how the ($2\times 2$) Bogoliubov transformation matrix naturally leads to the scalar thermal operator for $\sigma=0,1$ while it fails for any other value $0<\sigma<1$. This analysis also suggests that a generalized scalar thermal operator description, in the mixed space, is possible even for $0<\sigma<1$. We also show the existence of a scalar thermal operator relation in the momentum space.

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