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Power law Starobinsky model of inflation from no-scale SUGRA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-11 v5 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider a power law 1M2Rβ\frac{1}{M^2}R^{\beta} correction to Einstein gravity as a model of inflation. The interesting feature of this form of generalization is that small deviations from the Starobinsky limit β=2\beta=2 can change the value of tensor to scalar ratio from rO(103)r \sim \mathcal{O}(10^{-3}) to rO(0.1)r\sim \mathcal{O}(0.1). We find that in order to get large tensor perturbation r0.1r\approx 0.1 as indicated by BKP measurements, we require the value of β1.83\beta \approx 1.83 thereby breaking global Weyl symmetry. We show that the general RβR^\beta model can be obtained from a SUGRA construction by adding a power law (Φ+Φˉ)n(\Phi +\bar \Phi)^n term to the minimal no-scale SUGRA K\"ahler potential. We further show that this two parameter power law generalization of the Starobinsky model is equivalent to generalized non-minimal curvature coupled models with quantum corrected Φ4\Phi^{4}- potentials i.e. models of the form ξΦaRb+λΦ4(1+γ)\xi \Phi^{a} R^{b} + \lambda \Phi^{4(1+\gamma)} and thus the power law Starobinsky model is the most economical parametrization of such models.

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@article{arxiv.1405.1321,
  title  = {Power law Starobinsky model of inflation from no-scale SUGRA},
  author = {Girish Kumar Chakravarty and Subhendra Mohanty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1321},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, Matches version to appear in Phys. Lett. B