Published May 1, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Scale invariance and a gravitational model with non-eternal inflation

  • 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/10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/031

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2012
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. 031
ISSN
1475-7516