English

Reconstructing inflation in scalar-torsion $f(T,\phi)$ gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-08-17 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is investigated the reconstruction during the slow-roll inflation in the most general class of scalar-torsion theories whose Lagrangian density is an arbitrary function f(T,ϕ)f(T,\phi) of the torsion scalar TT of teleparallel gravity and the inflaton ϕ\phi. For the class of theories with Lagrangian density f(T,ϕ)=Mpl2T/2G(T)F(ϕ)V(ϕ)f(T,\phi)=-M_{pl}^{2} T/2 - G(T) F(\phi) - V(\phi), with G(T)Ts+1G(T)\sim T^{s+1} and the power ss as constant, we consider a reconstruction scheme for determining both the non-minimal coupling function F(ϕ)F(\phi) and the scalar potential V(ϕ)V(\phi) through the parametrization (or attractor) of the scalar spectral index ns(N)n_{s}(N) and the tensor-to-scalar ratio r(N)r(N) as functions of the number of ee-folds NN. As specific examples, we analyze the attractors ns11/Nn_{s}-1 \propto 1/N and r1/Nr\propto 1/N, as well as the case r1/N(N+γ)r\propto 1/N (N+\gamma) with γ\gamma a dimensionless constant. In this sense and depending on the attractors considered, we obtain different expressions for the function F(ϕ)F(\phi) and the potential V(ϕ)V(\phi), as also the constraints on the parameters present in our model and its reconstruction.

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@article{arxiv.2106.06145,
  title  = {Reconstructing inflation in scalar-torsion $f(T,\phi)$ gravity},
  author = {Manuel Gonzalez-Espinoza and Ramón Herrera and Giovanni Otalora and Joel Saavedra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.06145},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

14 pages, 1 figure, Accepted version for publication in EPJC