Dynamically generated inflationary two-field potential via non-Riemannian volume forms

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2019.114907MaRDI QIDQ2230165zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Benisty, Eduardo Guendelman, Emil Nissimov, Svetlana Pacheva

Publication date 17 September 2021

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07625

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

Abstract: We consider a simple model of modified gravity interacting with a single scalar field $varphi$ with weakly coupled exponential potential within the framework of non-Riemannian spacetime volume-form formalism. The specific form of the action is fixed by the requirement of invariance under global Weyl-scale symmetry. Upon passing to the physical Einstein frame we show how the non-Riemannian volume elements create a second canonical scalar field $u$ and dynamically generate a non-trivial two-scalar-field potential $U_{meff}(u,varphi)$ with two remarkable features: (i) it possesses a large flat region for large $u$ describing a slow-roll inflation; (ii) it has a stable low-lying minimum w.r.t. $(u,varphi)$ representing the dark energy density in the "late universe". We study the corresponding two-field slow-roll inflation and show that the pertinent slow-roll inflationary curve $varphi=varphi(u)$ in the two-field space $(u,varphi)$ has a very small curvature, i.e., $varphi$ changes very little during the inflationary evolution of $u$ on the flat region of $U_{meff}(u,varphi)$. Explicit expressions are found for the slow-roll parameters which differ from those in the single-field inflationary counterpart. Numerical solutions for the scalar spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio are derived agreeing with the observational data.

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