Cuscuton inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/05/008zbMATH Open1505.83024arXiv2111.06794OpenAlexW4229054452MaRDI QIDQ5099283FDOQ5099283

Authors: Nicola Bartolo, Alexander Ganz, Sabino Matarrese 

Publication date: 31 August 2022

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

Abstract: We study the impact of (generalized) cuscuton models on standard single scalar field inflation. Generalized cuscuton models are characterized by spatial covariant gravity where a scalar degree of freedom is made non dynamical, and there are just two tensor degrees of freedom. The presence of the non-dynamical scalar field does not spoil inflation but instead the modifications are, in general, slow-roll suppressed leading to almost scale-invariant power spectra. However, the extra free parameters, which can be tuned relatively independently, lead to a larger parameter range for observable quantities, such as the tensor-to-scalar ratio. For the (generalized) cuscuton model the non-Gaussianties of the curvature bispectrum are suppressed by the slow-roll parameters, and, therefore, outside the reach of current experiments. However, generalized cuscuton models can lead to a different shape for the bispectrum which might be constrained by future experiments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06794

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityinflation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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