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Reexamination of inflation in noncommutative space-time after Planck results

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2013-07-11 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

An inflationary model in the framework of noncommutative space-time may generate a nontrivial running of the scalar spectral index, but usually induces a large tensor-to-scalar ratio simultaneously. With the latest observational data from the Planck mission, we reexamine the inflationary scenarios in a noncommutative space-time. We find that either the running of the spectral index is tiny compared with the recent observational result, or the tensor-to-scalar ratio is too large to allow a sufficient number of ee-folds. As examples, we show that the chaotic and power-law inflation models with the noncommutative effects are not favored by the current Planck data.

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@article{arxiv.1304.4358,
  title  = {Reexamination of inflation in noncommutative space-time after Planck results},
  author = {Nan Li and Xin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4358},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures; version published in Physical Review D