Primordial Black Holes from Inflation with a Spectator Field

arXiv:2512.04199 · astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-ph, hep-th · Submitted 2025-12-03 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-ph, hep-th

Submitted: 2025-12-03

Updated: 2025-12-03

Comments: 18 pages, 19 figures. Companion paper to arXiv:2504.13251

Journal ref: Physical Review D 114 (2026), 083528

DOI: 10.1103/gwfm-jx9r

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Inflation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes

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