Power-law \(f(R)\) gravity corrected canonical scalar field inflation (Q2050979)

In this article the author has introduced a modified canonical scalar field inflationary theoretical framework, for which the dominant curvature term is not the Ricci scalar, as in Einstein-Hilbert gravity, but a power-law term. The dominance of the power-law term over the Einstein-Hilbert term eventually modifies the field equations and affects significantly the slowroll evolution of the canonical scalar field. The author calculated the slow-roll indices for the resulting theory and he demonstrated that when the slow-roll conditions hold true, these can be expressed in terms of the slow-roll index.