Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2011-05-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
8 pages, This essay has received an Honorable Mention from the Gravity Research Foundation - 2011 Awards for Essays on Gravita
Scientific paper
As is well known there are many different inflationary models that can explain the accelerated expansion occurred in the early Universe. It is possible that there exists a fundamental property of this period that could provide the corresponding field theory. Our hypothesis is that the Ricci scalar should assume a positive constant value during Inflation. Considering a single scalar field that drives the inflationary phase, we obtain uniquely the scalar potential and the coupling term between the scalar field and spacetime geometry. For this potential, that is well known in the inflationary scenario, the theoretical prediction of the spectral index $n_{s}$ is in perfect agreement with the experimental data. Interestingly in two dimensions, our model is equivalent to Liouville gravity.
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