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Cosmological Inflation in a Generalized Unimodular Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-01-03 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We study some aspects of cosmological inflation in the framework of unimodular f(R)f(R) gravity. To be more clarified, we consider a generic f(R)f(R) of the type f(R)=R+αRnf(R)=R+\alpha R^{n}. By considering Einstein frame counterpart of the unimodular f(R)f(R) gravity, we set the scalaron to be responsible for cosmological inflation in this setup. We confront our model parameters space with observational data and impose some constraints on the value of nn in this manner. We show that for the number of e-folds N=60N=60, the model is consistent with observation if 1.89<n<1.9181.89<n<1.918.

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@article{arxiv.1712.09522,
  title  = {Cosmological Inflation in a Generalized Unimodular Gravity},
  author = {K. Nozari and S. Shafizadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09522},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures

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