English

Reconstruction of k-essence inflation in Horndeski gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-09-12 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we analyzed inflation from k-essence in the framework of Horndeski gravity. In the specific, we considered models of canonical scalar field and k-essence with quadratic kinetic term. Viable inflationary models can be reconstructed by starting from the cosmological data. Several possibilities are explored in order to correctly reproduce the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio of primordial cosmological perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.1702.00064,
  title  = {Reconstruction of k-essence inflation in Horndeski gravity},
  author = {Lorenzo Sebastiani and Shynaray Myrzakul and Ratbay Myrzakulov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00064},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages, final version, accepted in EPJ Plus