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Inflationary predictions of Geometric Inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-09-02 v2

Abstract

In the framework of gravitational models obtained from the Geometric Inflation's proposal, where an infinite tower of curvature scalars are included into the action, we compute the slow-roll parameters by the Hubble slow-roll approach. We test the viability of such models as inflationary scenarios, focusing on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, rr, and spectral scalar index, nsn_s, relation. We find that all models considered here produce inflation and, most of them coincide, some better than others, with the marginalized 95%\% CL region given by Planck's data collaboration.

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@article{arxiv.2001.11094,
  title  = {Inflationary predictions of Geometric Inflation},
  author = {Gustavo Arciniega and Luisa Jaime and Gabriella Piccinelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11094},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

15 pages, 3 figures. Accepted version for publication in Physics Letters B. References added