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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/015
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modified gravity; inflation; quantum field theory on curved space
The BICEP2 collaboration has recently released data showing that the scalar-to-tensor ratio r is much larger than expected. The immediate consequence, in the context of f(R) gravity, is that the Starobinsky model of inflation is ruled out since it predicts a value of r much smaller than what is observed. Of course, the BICEP2 data need verification, especially from Planck with which there is some tension, therefore any conclusion seems premature. However, it is interesting to ask what would be the functional form of f(R) in the case when the value of r is different from the one predicted by the Starobinsky model. In this paper, we show how to determine the form of f(R), once the slow-roll parameters are known with some accuracy. The striking result is that, for given values of the scalar spectral index n(S) and r, the effective Lagrangian has the form f(R) = R-zeta, where zeta = 2-epsilon and vertical bar epsilon vertical bar << 1. Therefore, it appears that the inflationary phase of the Universe is best described by a R-2 theory, with a small deviation that, as we show, can be obtained by quantum corrections.
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