Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, small changes to match journal accepted version

Comment: 52 pages, 23 figures. A four page summary of methods and results follows the introduction. Version 2 contains minor clarifications and edits to match the version accepted for publication by JCAP. Version 3 fixes a typo in Eq. 3.10 and a typo in the paragraph af...

Comment: 23 pages, 4 figures. Minor changes to match version published in JCAP

We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the 9-year WMAP release to derive constraints on monodromy inflation, which is characterized by a linear inflaton potential with a periodic modulation. We identify two possible periodic modulations that significantly im...

Comment: 31 pages, 17 figures. Revised to match published version. Minor clarifications, conclusions unchanged

Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures. v3: replaced with version published in JCAP (typo fixes, including Figure 1 units)

Weak gravitational lensing alters the apparent separations between observed sources, potentially affecting clustering statistics. We derive a general expression for the lensing deflection which is valid for any three-point statistic, and investigate its effect on the th...

We study collisions between nearly planar domain walls including the effects of small initial nonplanar fluctuations. These perturbations represent the small fluctuations that must exist in a quantum treatment of the problem. In a previous paper, we demonstrated that at...

We present MultiModeCode, a Fortran 95/2000 package for the numerical exploration of multifield inflation models. This program facilitates efficient Monte Carlo sampling of prior probabilities for inflationary model parameters and initial conditions and is the first pub...

Even simple inflationary scenarios have many free parameters. Beyond the variables appearing in the inflationary action, these include dynamical initial conditions, the number of fields, and couplings to other sectors. These quantities are often ignored but cosmological...