Cosmic inflation from broken conformal symmetry

DOI10.1088/1572-9494/AC6B2FzbMATH Open1514.83046arXiv2110.14718OpenAlexW3210383684MaRDI QIDQ6157058FDOQ6157058

Authors: Rong-Gen Cai, Shao-Jiang Wang 

Publication date: 19 June 2023

Published in: Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A period of rapidly accelerating expansion is expected in the early Universe implemented by a scalar field slowly rolling down along an asymptotically flat potential preferred by the current data. In this paper, we point out that this picture of the cosmic inflation with an asymptotically flat potential could emerge from the Palatini quadratic gravity by adding the matter field in such a way to break the local gauged conformal symmetry in both kinetic and potential terms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14718

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityconformal symmetrycosmic inflationPalatini gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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