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The Possibility of Inflation in Asymptotically Safe Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-08-09 v3

Abstract

We examine the inflationary modes in the cubic curvature theories in the context of asymptotically safe gravity. On the phase space of the Hubble parameter, there exists a critical point which corresponds to the slow-roll inflation in Einstein frame. Most of the e-foldings are attained around the critical point for each inflationary trajectories. If the coupling constants gig_i have the parametric relations generated as the power of the relative energy scale of inflation H0H_0 to the ultraviolet cutoff Λ\Lambda, a successful inflation with more than 60 e-foldings occurs near the critical point.

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@article{arxiv.1108.5886,
  title  = {The Possibility of Inflation in Asymptotically Safe Gravity},
  author = {Sungwook E. Hong and Young Jae Lee and Heeseung Zoe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5886},
  year   = {2012}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures