A study of an Einstein Gauss-Bonnet quintessential inflationary model

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2019.114765zbMATH Open1435.83212arXiv1909.05318OpenAlexW2972422441MaRDI QIDQ2186362FDOQ2186362

Authors: K. Kleidis, V. K. Oikonomou 

Publication date: 9 June 2020

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

Abstract: In this paper we study a class of quintessential Einstein Gauss-Bonnet models, focusing on their early and late-time phenomenology. With regard to the early-time phenomenology, we formalize the slow-roll evolution of these models and we calculate in detail the spectral index of the primordial curvature perturbations and the tensor-to-scalar ratio. As we demonstrate, the resulting observational indices can be compatible with both the Planck and the BICEP2/Keck-Array observational constraints on inflation. With regard to the late-time behavior, by performing a numerical analysis we demonstrate that the class of models for which the coupling function $xi(phi)$ to the Gauss-Bonnet scalar satisfies $xi(phi)simfrac1V(phi)$, produce a similar pattern of evolution, which at late-times is characterized by a decelerating era until some critical redshift, at which point the Universe super-decelerates and subsequently accelerates until present time, with a decreasing rate though. The critical redshift crucially depends on the initial conditions chosen for the scalar field and for all the quintessential Einstein Gauss-Bonnet models studied, the late-time era is realized for large values of the scalar field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05318

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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