Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11147/6427
Title: Affine inflation
Authors: Azri, Hemza
Demir, Durmuş Ali
Keywords: Affine gravity
Vacuum energy
General relativity
Publisher: American Physical Society
Source: Azri, H., and Demir, D. A. (2017). Affine inflation. Physical Review D, 95(12). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.124007
Abstract: Affine gravity, a gravity theory based on affine connection with no notion of metric, supports scalar field dynamics only if scalar fields have nonvanishing potential. The nonvanishing vacuum energy ensures that the cosmological constant is nonvanishing. It also ensures that the energy-momentum tensor of vacuum gives the dynamically generated metric tensor. We construct this affine setup and study primordial inflation in it. We study inflationary dynamics in affine gravity and general relativity, comparatively. We show that nonminimally coupled inflaton dynamics can be transformed into minimally coupled ones with a modified potential. We also show that there is one unique frame in affine gravity, as opposed to the Einstein and Jordan frames in general relativity. Future observations with higher accuracy may be able to test affine gravity.
URI: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.124007
http://hdl.handle.net/11147/6427
ISSN: 2470-0010
2470-0010
2470-0029
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