Inflationary Cosmology in Modified Gravity Theories

By Kazuharu Bamba, Sergei D. Odintsov. Symmetry, 2015

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We review inflationary cosmology in modified gravity such as R2 gravity with its extensions in order to generalize the Starobinsky inflation model. In particular, we explore inflation realized by three kinds of effects: modification of gravity, the quantum anomaly, and the R2 term in loop quantum cosmology. It is explicitly demonstrated that in these inflationary models, the spectral index of scalar modes of the density perturbations and the tensor-to-scalar ratio can be consistent with the Planck results. Bounce cosmology in F(R) gravity is also explained.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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