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Extended Slow-Roll Conditions and Primordial Fluctuations: Multiple Scalar Fields and Generalized Gravity

Astrophysics 2009-11-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

As an extension of our previous study, we derive slow-roll conditions for multiple scalar fields which are non-minimally coupled with gravity and for generalized gravity theories of the form f(ϕ,R)f(\phi,R). We provide simple formulae of the spectral indices of scalar/tensor perturbations in terms of the slow-roll parameters.

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@article{arxiv.0810.5387,
  title  = {Extended Slow-Roll Conditions and Primordial Fluctuations: Multiple Scalar Fields and Generalized Gravity},
  author = {Takeshi Chiba and Masahide Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5387},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, to appear in JCAP