Studies on modified power law inflation |
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| Authors: | Prasenjit Paul Rikpratik Sengupta Saibal Ray |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics, Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal 700010, India2. Department of Physics, Aliah University, Action Area II, Newtown, Kolkata, West Bengal 700156, India3. Centre of Cosmology, Astrophysics and Space Science (CCASS), GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh 281406, India |
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| Abstract: | In this study, we evaluate power law inflation (PLI) with a monomial potential and obtain a novel exact solution. It is well known that the conventional PLI with an exponential potential is inconsistent with the Planck data. Unlike the standard PLI, the present model does not encounter the graceful exit problem, and the results agree fairly well with recent observations. In our analysis, we calculate the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio, both of which agree very well with recent observational data and are comparable with those of other modified inflationary models. The employed technique reveals that the large cosmological constant decreases with the expansion of the universe in the case of the PLI. The coupling of the inflaton with gravitation is the primary factor in this technique. The basic assumption here is that the two metric tensors in the gravitational and inflaton parts correspond to different conformal frames, which contradicts with the conventional PLI, where the inflaton is directly coupled with the background metric tensor. This fact has direct applications to different dark energy models and the assisted quintessence theory. |
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| Keywords: | power law inflation conformal coupling inflaton cosmological constant |
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