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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 ξ\xi and for a quartic potential without assuming small ξ\xi, we give the consistency relations among the spectral index nsn_s, the tensor-to-scalar ratio rr and the running of the spectral index α\alpha. We find that unlike rr, α\alpha is less sensitive to ξ\xi. If r<0.1r<0.1, then ξ\xi is constrained to ξ<0\xi<0 and α\alpha is predicted to be α8×104\alpha\simeq -8\times 10^{-4} for a quartic potential. For a general monomial potential, α\alpha is constrained in the range 2.7×103<α<6×104-2.7\times 10^{-3}<\alpha< -6\times 10^{-4} as long as ξ103|\xi|\leq 10^{-3} if r<0.1r<0.1.

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@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}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PTEP

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