A UV/IR COMPLETE BRANEWORLD INFLATION

作者:Pahlavan Ali*; Nozari Kourosh
来源:International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2010, 19(11): 1757-1771.
DOI:10.1142/S021827181001649X

摘要

A UV/IR complete theory of cosmological inflation is constructed in a braneworld setup that the inflaton field evolves on a DGP brane and the curvature effect is incorporated via the Gauss-Bonnet term in the bulk action. While the Induced Gravity on the DGP brane is a manifestation of the IR limit, the stringy Gauss-Bonnet effect in the bulk action realizes the UV sector of the scenario. This scenario generally supports a red power spectrum of perturbations, and for a large field regime requires a smaller number of e-folds than other braneworld inflation scenarios given the same assumptions. For the tensor-to-scalar ratio, this inflation scenario gives a better fit to observation than alternative scenarios.

  • 出版日期2010-9