Scale invariance and a gravitational model with non-eternal inflation
Creators
- 1. Departamento de Física da Universidade de Aveiro and I3N, Campus de Santiago, 3810-183 Aveiro (Portugal)
- 2. Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602 (Japan)
Description
We propose a 3+1 dimensional model of gravity which results in inflation at early times, followed by radiation- and matter-dominated epochs and a subsequent acceleration at late times. Both the inflation and late time acceleration are nearly de Sitter with a large hierarchy between the effective cosmological constants. There is no scalar field agent of inflation, and the transition from the inflation to the radiation-dominated period is smooth. This model is designed so that it yields, at the cost of giving up on Lorentz invariance in the gravitational sector, the Dirac-Born-Infeld type conformal scalar theory when the universe is conformally flat. It, however, resembles Einstein's gravity with the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term in weakly curved space-times
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/031Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2012
- Journal Issue
- 05
- Journal Page Range
- p. 031
- ISSN
- 1475-7516
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45101343
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; BORN-INFELD THEORY; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; DE SITTER GROUP; DE SITTER SPACE; DIAGRAMS; GRAVITATION; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; INFLATONS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; SCALAR FIELDS; SCALE INVARIANCE; SPACE-TIME; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; INFORMATION; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; POSTULATED PARTICLES; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS