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Non-Minimal Inflation Revisited

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-11-21 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We reconsider an inflationary model that inflaton field is non-minimally coupled to gravity. We study parameter space of the model up to the second ( and in some cases third ) order of the slow-roll parameters. We calculate inflation parameters in both Jordan and Einstein frames and the results are compared in these two frames and also with observations. Using the recent observational data from combined WMAP5+SDSS+SNIa datasets, we study constraint imposed on our model parameters especially the nonminimal coupling ξ\xi.

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@article{arxiv.1006.1027,
  title  = {Non-Minimal Inflation Revisited},
  author = {Kourosh Nozari and S. Shafizadeh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.1027},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures

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