Consistency Relations for Large Field Inflation: Non-minimal Coupling
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2015-09-03 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We derive the consistency relations for a chaotic inflation model with a non-minimal coupling to gravity. For a quadratic potential in the limit of a small non-minimal coupling parameter and for a quartic potential without assuming small , we give the consistency relations among the spectral index , the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the running of the spectral index . We find that unlike , is less sensitive to . If , then is constrained to and is predicted to be for a quartic potential. For a general monomial potential, is constrained in the range as long as if .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1411.7104,
title = {Consistency Relations for Large Field Inflation: Non-minimal Coupling},
author = {Takeshi Chiba and Kazunori Kohri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7104},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
11 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PTEP