5–9 Jul 2026
University of Canterbury
Pacific/Auckland timezone

Primordial universe with vector hair on small-scale

6 Jul 2026, 11:57
2m
Room E8 (Rātā / Engineering Core Building, University of Canterbury)

Room E8

Rātā / Engineering Core Building, University of Canterbury

63 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand

Speaker

Chong-Bin Chen (Nanchang University)

Description

A mechanism for generating anisotropic enhancements of the curvature perturbation through a vector field is proposed. This suggests that statistical anisotropy in primordial black hole (PBH) formation and stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWB) may be inevitable if inflation undergoes an anisotropic inflationary phase. Our findings offer a novel approach to probe vector hair during inflation and to test the cosmic no-hair conjecture.

Research Area Cosmology: very early universe

Authors

Chong-Bin Chen (Nanchang University) Prof. Fu-Wen Shu (Nanchang University) Ms Bai-Xin An (Nanchang University)

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