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Open Inflation With Scalar-tensor Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-25 v3

Abstract

The open inflation model recently proposed by Hawking and Turok is investigated in scalar-tensor gravity context. If the dilaton-like field has no potential, the instanton of our model is singular but has a finite action. The Gibbons-Hawking surface term vanishes and hence, can not be used to make Ω0\Omega_0 nonzero. To obtain a successful open inflation one should introduce other matter fields or a potential for the dilaton-like fields.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9805164,
  title  = {Open Inflation With Scalar-tensor Gravity},
  author = {Jae-weon Lee and Seoktae Koh and Chul H. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9805164},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages.1 figure. Some comments and references are improved. to be published in PRD