Primordial Cosmology of an Emergent-like Universe from Modified Gravity: Reconstruction and Phenomenology Optimization with a Genetic Algorithm

Abstract

In this work we consider the realization of a variant emergent Universe scenario in the context of $f(R)$ gravity. We use well-known reconstruction techniques existing in the literature, and we find the approximate form of the vacuum $f(R)$ that reproduces the specific variant emergent Universe scale factor in the large curvature approximation. As we show, in the variant emergent Universe scenario, the Hubble horizon shrinks primordially and the Universe undergoes in an accelerated expansion era. In a perturbation theory approach, the scalar and tensor curvature perturbations can be expressed in terms of the phenomenological indices ${\epsilon }_i,i=1,3,4$, usually used for inflationary phenomenology, and we extract the spectral indices for the scalar and tensor perturbations, along with the tensor-to-scalar ratio expressed in terms of the perturbation indices. Using a powerful genetic algorithm we investigate in depth the parameter space of the model, quantified by several free parameters, in order to study the viability of the model when this is compared with the Planck 2018 data. We also investigate the implications of the vacuum $f(R)$ gravity we found on the Big Bang nucleosynthesis.

IJMPD Accepted. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2309.04850

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