Anomaly-induced effective action for gravity and inflation

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Authors Julio C. Fabris, A. M. Pelinson, Ilya L. Shapiro

Publication date 17 September 2000

Published in Gravitation \& Cosmology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9810032

zbMATH Keywords

early period of evolutioninflationary solutioninstabilitymatter sectorminimum standard modelvery early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: In the very early Universe the matter may be described by the free radiation, that is by the set of massless fields with negligible interactions between them. Then the dominating quantum effect is the trace anomaly which comes from the renormalization of the conformal invariant part of the vacuum action. The anomaly-induced effective action can be found with accuracy to an arbitrary conformal functional which vanishes for the special case of the conformally flat metric. This gives the solid basis for the study of the conformally-flat cosmological solutions, first of which was discovered by Mamaev and Mostepanenko and by Starobinski in 1980. Treating the anomaly-induced action as quantum correction to the Einstein-Hilbert term we explore the possibility to have inflationary solutions, investigate their dependence on the initial data and discuss the restrictions in considering the density perturbations. The shape of inflationary solutions strongly depends on the underlying gauge model of the elementary particles physics. Two special cases are considered: Minimal Standard Model and the matter sector of N=8, D=4 supergravity. It turns out that inflation is almost inevitable consequence of the great difference between Planck mass and the mass of the heaviest massive particle.

Review text

The standard cosmological model though it describes the present stage of the universe well, it yet fails to explain the early period of evolution which passed through the period of very rapid inflation by more than 60 orders. The source of inflation is still unclear. The paper under review is an attempt by the authors to fill up this gap. The authors consider a model of the very early universe filled with pure radiation consisting of free, massless, conformally invariant matter fields with negligible interactions between them and derive the source of inflation from quantum vacuum effects of pure radiation in an arbitary curved background. The authors first review the derivation of quantum correction to the classical action of gravity [\textit{R. J. Riegert}, Phys. Lett. B 134, 56-60 (1980); \textit{E. S. Fradkin} and \textit{A. A. Tseytlin}, Phys. Lett. B 134, 187-193 (1980)] which results from the trace anomaly and contains an arbitrary conformally invariant functional [\textit{M. J. Duff}, Nucl. Phys. B 125, 334ff. (1977)]. This functional vanishes in the special case of a conformally flat metric. The authors present a particular inflationary solution strongly depending on the underlying gauge model of particle physics and establish its instability. They consider two special cases: minimum standard model and matter sector of \(N=8\), \(D=4\) supergravity and then critically examine the results of numerical investigations and give a physical analysis of the inflation. Finally, they discuss their conclusions and propose an outline of the further studies. From their findings, ultimately it turns out that inflation is almost an inevitable consequence of the great difference between the Planck mass and that of the heaviest particle.

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