Primordial black holes as a natural consequence of scale-invariance

arXiv:2610.10677 · astro-ph.CO, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Benchmark — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reheating — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Nonminimal coupling — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• First-Order Transition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Microlensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Spectral Distortions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• pulsar timing arrays — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Planck 2018 results. X. Constraints on inflation
• Higgs-Dilaton Cosmology: From the Early to the Late Universe
• Higgs-Dilaton Cosmology: an effective field theory approach
• Agravity
• Scale-Independent Inflation and Hierarchy Generation
• Weyl Current, Scale-Invariant Inflation and Planck Scale Generation
• Cosmology with a TeV mass GUT Higgs
• Thermal Inflation and the Moduli Problem
• Primordial Black Holes from Thermal Inflation
• Escape from supercooling with or without bubbles: gravitational wave signatures
• The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: Pulsar-timing Constraints On The Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background
• Significance of soft-scale breaking on primordial black hole production in Coleman-Weinberg type supercooling-phase transition
• Spontaneous breaking of the Peccei-Quinn symmetry during warm inflation
• Large-scale Perturbations from the Waterfall Field in Hybrid Inflation
• Spinodal Inflation
• Smearing Formula for Higher-Order Effective Classical Potentials
• Spinodal Decomposition and Inflation: Dynamics and Metric Perturbations
• Spinodal Backreaction During Inflation and Initial Conditions
• Waterfall field in hybrid inflation and curvature perturbation
• Calculating the mass spectrum of primordial black holes

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