Extended interactions in the Palatini-$R^2$ inflation

Abstract

The Palatini formulation of the Starobinsky model does not yield a propagating scalaron that can assume the role of the inflaton field as in the conventional metric formulation. In the so-called Palatini-$R^2$ models this role is assumed by a fundamental scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity. In this article we consider an extension of the interactions of this field by introducing a field dependence to the $R^2$ coefficient in the form of logarithmic corrections. We examine the resulting predictions of the inflationary observables in the framework of slow-roll approximation and investigate the possible implications of the reheating process on these predictions. We find that the model predictions lie in the favoured region of the observations and that the assumed scalar field dependence of the $R^2$ coupling tends to decrease the value of the spectral index $n_s$ and potentially enhance the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$, circumventing the highly suppressed values commonly cited for models considered in the same framework.

arXiv comment20 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, JCAP accepted version

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