1/R Correction to Gravity in the Early Universe

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2009-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/0905.3470v4

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

27 pages, 7 figures, even more references added

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To explain the accelerated expansion of late universe, the 1/R correction to Einstein gravity is usually considered, where R is the Ricci scalar. This correction term is generally believed to be negligible in the early universe. However, if the 1/R term is inflaton-dependent, it will dramatically change the story of inflation. The entropy perturbation will naturally appear and drive the evolution of curvature perturbation outside the Hubble horizon. In a large class of models, the entropy perturbation can be made nearly scale-invariant. In Einstein gravity the single-field inflation with a quartic potential has been ruled out by recent observations, but it revives when the 1/R term is turned on. The evolution of non-Gaussianities on large scale are also studied and applied to inflation with 1/R correction. In some specific models, a large non-Gaussianity can be naturally generated outside the horizon.

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