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Inflation in simple one-loop effective potentials of perturbative quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-07-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study inflation in scalar-tensor perturbative quantum gravity driven by a one-loop effective potential. We consider effective potentials generated by three models. The first model describes a single scalar field with a non-vanishing mass. The second model describes a massless scalar field with non-minimal coupling to the Einstein tensor. The third model generalises the Coleman-Weinberg model for the gravitational case. The first model can be consistent with the observational data for N70N\sim 70 e-foldings. The second model can be consistent with the observational data for N40N \sim 40 e-foldings. We did not find parameters that make the generalised Coleman-Weinberg model consistent with the observational data. We discuss the implications of these results and ways to improve them with other terms of effective action.

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@article{arxiv.2307.02214,
  title  = {Inflation in simple one-loop effective potentials of perturbative quantum gravity},
  author = {A. Arbuzov and D. Kuznetsov and B. Latosh and V. Shmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.02214},
  year   = {2024}
}

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19 pages, 30 figures. International Journal of Modern Physics, 2024

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