Marginally deformed Starobinsky gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2015)050MaRDI QIDQ1754873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Codello, Francesco Sannino, Ole Svendsen, Jakob S. Jørgensen

Publication date 31 May 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3558

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We show that quantum-induced marginal deformations of the Starobinsky gravitational action of the form $R^{2(1-alpha)}$, with $R$ the Ricci scalar and $alpha$ a positive parameter, smaller than one half, can account for the recent experimental observations by BICEP2 of primordial tensor modes. We also suggest natural microscopic (non) gravitational sources of these corrections and demonstrate that they lead generally to a nonzero and positive $alpha$. Furthermore we argue, that within this framework, the tensor modes probe theories of grand unification with a large scalar field content.

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