Inflationary attractors and perturbation spectra in generally coupled gravity

A generic outcome of theories with scalar-tensor coupling is the existence of inflationary attractors, either power law or de Sitter type. The fluctuations arising during this phase are Gaussian and their spectrum depends on the wave number k according to the power law k1(1−p), where p is the inflat...

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Hauptverfasser: Amendola, Luca (VerfasserIn) , Bellisai, Diego (VerfasserIn) , Occhionero, Franco (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 15 May 1993
In: Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology
Year: 1993, Jahrgang: 47, Heft: 10, Pages: 4267-4272
ISSN:1550-2368
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.47.4267
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.47.4267
Verlag, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.47.4267
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Verfasserangaben:Luca Amendola, Diego Bellisai, and Franco Occhionero
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Zusammenfassung:A generic outcome of theories with scalar-tensor coupling is the existence of inflationary attractors, either power law or de Sitter type. The fluctuations arising during this phase are Gaussian and their spectrum depends on the wave number k according to the power law k1(1−p), where p is the inflationary power-law exponent. We investigate to what extent these properties depend on the coupling function and potential. We find the class of models in which variable attractors exist. Within this class, we find that the cosmic expansion and the scaling of the fluctuation spectrum are independent of the coupling function. Further, the analytical solution of the Fokker-Planck equation shows that the deviations from Gaussian behavior are negligible.
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ISSN:1550-2368
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.47.4267