Recent Advances in Inflation
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · Institute of Space Sciences · +5 more institutions
Abstract
We review recent trends in inflationary dynamics in the context of viable modified gravity theories. After providing a general overview of the inflationary paradigm emphasizing on what problems hot Big Bang theory inflation solves, and a somewhat introductory presentation of single-field inflationary theories with minimal and non-minimal couplings, we review how inflation can be realized in terms of several string-motivated models of inflation, which involve Gauss–Bonnet couplings of the scalar field, higher-order derivatives of the scalar field, and some subclasses of viable Horndeski theories. We also present and analyze inflation in the context of Chern–Simons theories of gravity, including various subcases…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 36.11
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 203
Authors
5- SDSergei D. Odintsov
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Institute of Space Sciences
- VKV. K. OikonomouCorresponding
Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio-Electronics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- IGIfigeneia Giannakoudi
University of Waterloo, Perimeter Institute
- FFF.P. Fronimos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
- ECEirini C. Lymperiadou
University of Bonn, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Topics & keywords
- Physics
- Theoretical physics
- Inflation (cosmology)
- String theory
- Scalar field
- Context (archaeology)
- Scalar (mathematics)
- Axion
- Decent work and economic growth