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Corpuscular slow-roll inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-10-30 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that a corpuscular description of gravity can lead to an inflationary scenario similar to Starobinsky's model without requiring the introduction of the inflaton field. All relevant properties are determined by the number of gravitons in the cosmological condensate or, equivalently, by their Compton length. In particular, the relation between the Hubble parameter HH and its time derivative H˙\dot H required by CMB observations at the end of inflation, as well as the (minimum) initial value of the slow-roll parameter, are naturally obtained from the Compton size of the condensate.

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@article{arxiv.1708.09736,
  title  = {Corpuscular slow-roll inflation},
  author = {Roberto Casadio and Andrea Giugno and Andrea Giusti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.09736},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, minor typos corrected

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