Predictions of quantum gravity in inflationary cosmology: effects of the Weyl-squared term

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2020)211MaRDI QIDQ2215437zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Damiano Anselmi, Eugenio Bianchi, Marco Piva

Publication date 11 December 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10293

zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelcosmology of theories beyond the SMmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: We derive the predictions of quantum gravity with fakeons on the amplitudes and spectral indices of the scalar and tensor fluctuations in inflationary cosmology. The action is $R+R^2$ plus the Weyl-squared term. The ghost is eliminated by turning it into a fakeon, that is to say a purely virtual particle. We work to the next-to-leading order of the expansion around the de Sitter background. The consistency of the approach puts a lower bound ($m_{chi}>m_{phi}/4$) on the mass $m_{chi}$ of the fakeon with respect to the mass $m_{phi}$ of the inflaton. The tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ is predicted within less than an order of magnitude ($4/3<N^{2}r<12$ to the leading order in the number of $e$-foldings $N$). Moreover, the relation $rsimeq-8n_T$ is not affected by the Weyl-squared term. No vector and no other scalar/tensor degree of freedom is present.

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