Consistent inflationary cosmology from quadratic gravity with dynamical torsion

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/004zbMATH Open1492.83074arXiv2003.00664OpenAlexW3007098371MaRDI QIDQ5069149FDOQ5069149

Authors: Katsuki Aoki, Shinji Mukohyama 

Publication date: 8 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The idea of gauge theories of gravity predicts that there should exist not only the massless graviton but also massive particles carrying the gravitational force. We study the cosmology in a quadratic gravity with dynamical torsion where gravity may be interpreted as a gauge force associated with the Poincar'{e} group. In addition to the massless spin-2 graviton, the model contains four non-ghost massive particle species: a couple of spin-0, a spin-1 and a spin-2. Supposing the restoration of the local Weyl invariance in the UV limit and the parity invariance, we find the most general minisuperspace action describing a homogeneous and isotropic universe with a flat spatial geometry. We then transform the minisuperspace action to a quasi-Einstein frame in which the field space is a hyperboloid and the field potential is a combination of those of a Starobinsky-like inflation and a natural inflation. Remarkably, thanks to the multi-field dynamics, the Starobinsky-like inflationary trajectory can be realized even if the initial condition is away from the top of the Starobinsky-like potential. We also study linear tensor perturbations and find qualitatively different features than the Starobinsky inflation, spontaneous parity violation and mixing of the massless and massive spin-2 modes, which might reveal the underlying nature of gravity through inflationary observables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00664

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityinflationcosmology of theories beyond the SM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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