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Slow-roll inflation in Palatini F(R) gravity

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Article number106
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>20/06/2022
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of High Energy Physics
Issue number6
Volume2022
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We study single field slow-roll inflation in the presence of F(R) gravity in the Palatini formulation. In contrast to metric F(R), when rewritten in terms of an auxiliary field and moved to the Einstein frame, Palatini F(R) does not develop a new dynamical degree of freedom. However, it is not possible to solve analytically the constraint equation of the auxiliary field for a general F(R). We propose a method that allows us to circumvent this issue and compute the inflationary observables. We apply this method to test scenarios of the form F(R) = R + αRn and find that, as in the previously known n = 2 case, a large α suppresses the tensor-to-scalar ratio r. We also find that models with F(R) increasing faster than R2 for large R suffer from numerous problems.