Non-minimal coupling of the scalar field and inflation
Astrophysics
2014-10-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We study the prescriptions for the coupling constant of a scalar field to the Ricci curvature of spacetime in specific gravity and scalar field theories. The results are applied to the most popular inflationary scenarios of the universe; their theoretical consistency and certain observational constraints are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9602111,
title = {Non-minimal coupling of the scalar field and inflation},
author = {Valerio Faraoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9602111},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
23 pages, LaTex, no figures, to appear in Physical Review D