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TY - JOUR
T1 - UV completion of the Starobinsky model, tensor-to-scalar ratio, and constraints on nonlocality
AU - Edholm, James
N1 - © 2017 American Physical Society
PY - 2017/2/15
Y1 - 2017/2/15
N2 - In this paper, we build upon the successes of the ultraviolet (UV) completion of the Starobinsky model of inflation. This involves an extension of the Einstein-Hilbert term by an infinite covariant derivative theory of gravity which is quadratic in curvature. It has been shown that such a theory can potentially resolve the cosmological singularity for a flat, homogeneous and isotropic geometry, and now it can also provide a successful cosmological inflation model, which in the infrared regime matches all the predictions of the Starobinsky model of inflation. The aim of this paper is to show that the tensor-to-scalar ratio is modified by the scale of nonlocality, and in general a wider range of tensor-to-scalar ratios can be obtained in this class of model, which can put a lower bound on the scale of nonlocality for the first time as large as the O(10^14) GeV.
AB - In this paper, we build upon the successes of the ultraviolet (UV) completion of the Starobinsky model of inflation. This involves an extension of the Einstein-Hilbert term by an infinite covariant derivative theory of gravity which is quadratic in curvature. It has been shown that such a theory can potentially resolve the cosmological singularity for a flat, homogeneous and isotropic geometry, and now it can also provide a successful cosmological inflation model, which in the infrared regime matches all the predictions of the Starobinsky model of inflation. The aim of this paper is to show that the tensor-to-scalar ratio is modified by the scale of nonlocality, and in general a wider range of tensor-to-scalar ratios can be obtained in this class of model, which can put a lower bound on the scale of nonlocality for the first time as large as the O(10^14) GeV.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.044004
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.044004
M3 - Journal article
VL - 95
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 4
M1 - 044004
ER -