Inflationary Phenomenology of Einstein Gauss-Bonnet Gravity Compatible with GW170817

Abstract

In this work we shall study Einstein Gauss-Bonnet theories and we investigate when these can have their gravitational wave speed equal to the speed of light, which is unity in natural units, thus becoming compatible with the striking event GW170817. We demonstrate how this is possible and we show that if the scalar coupling to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant is constrained to satisfy a differential equation, the gravitational wave speed becomes equal to one. Accordingly, we investigate the inflationary phenomenology of the resulting restricted Einstein Gauss-Bonnet model, by assuming that the slow-roll conditions hold true. As we demonstrate, the compatibility with the observational data coming from the Planck 2018 collaboration, can be achieved, even for a power-law potential. We restricted ourselves to the study of the power-law potential, due to the lack of analyticity, however more realistic potentials can be used, in this case though the calculations are not easy to be performed analytically. We also pointed out that a string-corrected extension of the Einstein Gauss-Bonnet model we studied, containing terms of the form $\sim \xi (\varphi )G^{ab}{\partial }_a\varphi {\partial }_b\varphi$ can also provide a theory with gravity waves speed $c_T^2=1$ in natural units, if the function $\xi (\varphi )$ is appropriately constrained, however in the absence of the Gauss-Bonnet term $\sim \xi (\varphi )\mathcal{G}$ the gravity waves speed can never be $c_T^2=1$. Finally, we discuss which extensions of the above models can provide interesting cosmologies, since any combination of $f(R,X,\varphi )$ gravities with the above string-corrected Einstein Gauss-Bonnet models can yield $c_T^2=1$, with $X=\frac{1}{2}{\partial }_{\mu }\varphi {\partial }^{\mu }\varphi$.

PLB Accepted

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