English

Nonminimal coupling inflation with constant slow roll

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-08-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study a single field inflationary model modified by a non-minimal coupling term between the Ricci scalar RR and the scalar field φ\varphi in the context of constant-roll inflation. The first-order formalism is used to analyse the constant-roll inflation instead of the standard methods used in the literature. In principle, the formalism considers two functions of the scalar field, W=W(φ)W=W(\varphi) and Z=Z(φ)Z=Z(\varphi), which lead to the reduction of the equations of motion to first-order differential equations. The approach can be applied to a wide range of cosmological situations since it directly relates the function WW with Hubble parameter HH. We perform the inflationary analysis for power-law and exponential couplings, separately. Then, we investigate the features of constant-roll potentials as inflationary potentials. Finally, we compare the inflationary parameters of the models with the observations of CMB anisotropies in view of realize a physically motivated model.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.00596,
  title  = {Nonminimal coupling inflation with constant slow roll},
  author = {Mehdi Shokri and Jafar Sadeghi and Mohammad Reza Setare and Salvatore Capozziello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00596},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D

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