Generalized slow-roll inflation

Abstract

The slow-roll approximation to inflation is ultimately justified by the presence of inflationary attractors for the orbits of the solutions of the dynamical equations in phase space. There are many indications that the inflaton field couples nonminimally to the spacetime curvature: the existence of attractor points for inflation with nonminimal coupling is demonstrated, subject to a condition on the inflaton potential and the value of the coupling constant.

14 pages, LaTeX, some typos corrected

References in corpus (1)

• Extended Quintessence

Cited by in corpus (24)

• Inflation with Non-Minimal Coupling: Metric vs. Palatini Formulations
• The stability of modified gravity models
• Recent Advances on Inflation
• Superquintessence
• Modified gravity and the stability of de Sitter space
• de Sitter attractors in generalized gravity
• A crucial ingredient of inflation
• Frame-Covariant Formulation of Inflation in Scalar-Curvature Theories
• Reheating of the universe after inflation with f(phi)R gravity
• Slow-roll inflation in generalized scalar-torsion gravity
• Extended quintessence, inflation, and stable de Sitter spaces
• Non-chaotic dynamics in general-relativistic and scalar-tensor cosmology
• Route to Lambda in conformally coupled phantom cosmology
• Rate of gravitational inflaton decay via gauge trace anomaly
• Slow-Roll Inflation in the Jordan Frame
• The dynamical behaviour of homogeneous scalar-field spacetimes with general self-interaction potentials
• Chameleon Field Dynamics During Inflation
• Formalizing Slow-roll Inflation in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravitation
• Phantom cosmology as a scattering process
• Cosmological Solutions of Chameleon Scalar Field Model
• Global portraits of nonminimal inflation
• Unified dynamical system formulations for $f(R,\varphi ,X)$ gravity with applications to nonminimal derivative coupling and $R^2$-Higgs inflation
• Elliptic solutions of generalized Brans-Dicke gravity with a non-universal coupling
• Nonlinear phenomena in general relativity