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How typical is General Relativity in Brans-Dicke chaotic inflation?

广义相对论与量子宇宙学 2007-05-23 v1

摘要

General Relativity is recovered from Brans-Dicke gravity in the limit of large ω\omega. In this article we investigate theories of Brans-Dicke gravity with chaotic inflation, allowing for either a constant or variable value of ω\omega, known as extended and hyperextended inflation respectively. The main focus of the paper is placed on the latter. The variation ω\omega with respect to the Brans-Dicke field is based on higher-order corrections analogous to those of the dilaton field in string theory, following the simple principle that the Brans-Dicke and metric fields decouple asymptotically. The question addressed is whether a large value of ω\omega is predominant in most regions of the universe, which would lead to the conclusion that a typical region is then governed by General Relativity. In these theories we find that it is possible to construct inflaton potentials that drive the evolution of the Brans-Dicke field to an appropriate range of values at the end of inflation, such that a large ω\omega is indeed typical in an average region of the universe. However, in general this conclusion does not hold and it is shown that for a wide class of inflaton potentials General Relativity is not a priori a typical theory.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9712031,
  title  = {How typical is General Relativity in Brans-Dicke chaotic inflation?},
  author = {Mikel Susperregi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9712031},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Submitted to Phys Rev D. 24 pages, 3 figures. LaTeX, figures in ps format