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Initial conditions for Starobinsky inflation in general quadratic gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-05-09 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We consider initial conditions leading to Starobinsky inflation in the general quadratic gravity, where the action of the theory contains one more curvature square invariant in addition to R2R^2. We have chosen corresponding coefficients in a way so that the inflationary solution keeps to be stable. Our numerical results show that despite the configuration of initial conditions in the (H,R)(H,R) plane, leading to Starobinsky inflation can change considerably from the R2R^2 theory, realization of inflation does not need a fine-tuning of the initial conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2505.04805,
  title  = {Initial conditions for Starobinsky inflation in general quadratic gravity},
  author = {Daniel Muller and Alexey Toporensky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04805},
  year   = {2025}
}
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