English

Self-tuning inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-11-22 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We develop an inflationary model without small parameters on the basis of multidimensional f(R)f(R) gravity with a minimally coupled scalar field. The model is described by two stages of space expansion. The first one begins at energy scales about the D-dimensional Planck mass and ends with the de Sitter metric of our space and the maximally symmetric extra dimensions. In the following, the quantum fluctuations produce a wide set of inhomogeneous extra metrics in causally disconnected regions quickly generated in the de Sitter space. We find a specific extra space metric that leads to the effective Starobinsky model that fits the observational data.

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@article{arxiv.2204.04647,
  title  = {Self-tuning inflation},
  author = {Polina Petriakova and Sergey G. Rubin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04647},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted version in the Eur. Phys. J. C

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