How typical is General Relativity in Brans-Dicke chaotic inflation?
摘要
General Relativity is recovered from Brans-Dicke gravity in the limit of large . In this article we investigate theories of Brans-Dicke gravity with chaotic inflation, allowing for either a constant or variable value of , known as extended and hyperextended inflation respectively. The main focus of the paper is placed on the latter. The variation 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 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 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.
引用
@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}
}
备注
Submitted to Phys Rev D. 24 pages, 3 figures. LaTeX, figures in ps format