George, I and the curvaton
Konstantinos Dimopoulos
hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, hep-th
Submitted: 2026-07-03
Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures,Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2025 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" (CORFU2025)
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: George Lazarides was a pivotal collaborator and friend to me.
Terminology
Abstract
George Lazarides was a pivotal collaborator and friend to me. We worked together on several projects, developing and exploiting the curvaton hypothesis, which was new at the time. This is a brief overview of our joint research.
Sources
- Generating the curvature perturbation without an inflaton
- The primordial density perturbation in the curvaton scenario
- Models of inflation liberated by the curvaton hypothesis
- Curvaton Dynamics
- Supersymmetry Breaking in the Early Universe
- Constraints on a mixed inflaton and curvaton scenario for the generation of the curvature perturbation
- The Peccei-Quinn Field as Curvaton
- Can the curvaton paradigm accommodate a low inflation scale?
- Inflation at the TeV scale with a PNGB curvaton
- Modular inflation and the orthogonal axion as curvaton
- Can a vector field be responsible for the curvature perturbation in the Universe?
- Vector Curvaton with varying Kinetic Function
- Particle Production of Vector Fields: Scale Invariance is Attractive
- Eliminating the eta-problem in SUGRA Hybrid Inflation with Vector Backreaction
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