Scale invariance and a gravitational model with non-eternal inflation

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作者
Herdeiro, Carlos [1 ,2 ]
Hirano, Shinji [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Aveiro, Dept Fis, P-3810183 Aveiro, Portugal
[2] I3N, P-3810183 Aveiro, Portugal
[3] Nagoya Univ, Dept Phys, Nagoya, Aichi 4648602, Japan
关键词
modified gravity; inflation; string theory and cosmology; dark energy theory; COSMOLOGY; SYMMETRY; FLATNESS; UNIVERSE; HORIZON;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2012/05/031
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
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.
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