Inflation in a scalar-vector-tensor theory

DOI10.1007/S10714-022-02901-YMaRDI QIDQ2667399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Oliveros, Cristhian J. Rodríguez

Publication date 4 March 2022

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03629

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyinflationlinear cosmological perturbationsno-ghosts and stability conditionsscalar-vector-tensor theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In this work, we study inflation in a particular scalar-vector-tensor theory of gravitation without the $U(1)$ gauge symmetry. The model is constructed from the more general action introduced in Heisenberg et al. (Phys Rev D 98:024038, 2018) using certain specific choices for the Lagrangians and the coupling functions. Also, for this model we build the explicit form for the action, and from it, we derive the general equations: the energy-momentum tensor and the equations of motion, and using the flat FLRW background, we have analyzed if it's possible to obtain an inflationary regime with it. Additionally, using particular choices for the potential, the coupling functions, suitable dimensionless coupling constants and initial conditions, it was possible verify numerically that this model of inflation is viable. In this sense, we could verify that the introduction of the coupling function $f(phi)$ in our model of inflation, allows us to reach a suitable amount of $e$-foldings $N$ for sufficient inflation. This is a remarkable result, since without the coupling function contribution, the amount of $e$-foldings is smaller at the end of inflation, as has been demonstrated in Heisenberg et al. (2018). Also, the no-ghosts and stability conditions that the model during inflation must satisfy, i.e., absence of ghosts and Laplacian instabilities of linear cosmological perturbations were obtained, furthermore these conditions were verified numerically too.

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