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Cosmological constraints on slow-roll inflation: an update

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-11-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In light of the most recent cosmological observations, we provide new updated constraints on the slow-roll inflation in different extended scenarios beyond the ΛCDM\Lambda\rm{CDM} cosmological model. Along with the usual six parameters, we simultaneously vary different combinations of additional parameters, including the running of the scalar spectral index αs\alpha_s, its running of running βs\beta_s, the tensor amplitude rr and the spatial curvature Ωk\Omega_k. From the Planck 2018 data, we find no evidence for a scalar running or a running of running, while analyzing the Atacama Cosmology Telescope data combined with WMAP 9-years observations data we find a preference for non-zero αs\alpha_s and βs\beta_s at the level of 2.9σ\sigma and 2.7σ\sigma, respectively. Anyway, this preference is reduced when the tensor amplitude can vary in the model or βs\beta_s is fixed to zero. The upper bound on rr is only slightly affected by the additional parameters while the differences in the datasets can remarkably change the compatibility among the different inflationary models, sometimes leading to discordant conclusions.

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@article{arxiv.2110.01695,
  title  = {Cosmological constraints on slow-roll inflation: an update},
  author = {Matteo Forconi and William Giarè and Eleonora Di Valentino and Alessandro Melchiorri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01695},
  year   = {2021}
}

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20 pages, 6 figures