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Chaplygin inflation in loop quantum cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-08-20 v1

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the inflationary universe in the context of a Chaplygin gas equation of state within the framework of the effective theory of loop quantum cosmology. Under the slow-roll approximation, we calculate the primordial perturbations for this model. We give the general expressions of the scalar spectral index, its running, and the tensor-to-scalar ratio, etc. For the chaotic inflation with a quadratic potential, using the WMAP 5-year results, we determine the parameters of the Chaplygin inflation model in loop quantum cosmology. The results are consistent with the WMAP observations.

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@article{arxiv.0902.0928,
  title  = {Chaplygin inflation in loop quantum cosmology},
  author = {Xin Zhang and Jingfei Zhang and Jinglei Cui and Li Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0928},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett. A

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