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Generic slow-roll and non-gaussianity parameters in f(R) theories

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/05/028

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inflation; non-gaussianity; gravity

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  1. ICTP Professor Visitor Program
  2. Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior - Brasil (CAPES) [001]
  3. CNPq (Brazil)
  4. Fapes (Brazil)
  5. CAPES (Brazil)
  6. Humboldt foundation (Germany)

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In this paper we establish formulae for the inflationary slow-roll parameters epsilon, eta and zeta as functions of the Ricci scalar R for f (R) theories of gravity. As examples, we present the analytic and numerical solutions of epsilon, eta and zeta as functions of the number of e-folds N in two important instances: for the Starobinsky model and for a f(R) reconstruction of the alpha-Attractors. The highlight of our proposal is to rewrite the slow-roll parameters in terms of f (R), which allows to find directly n(s), r, alpha(s) and f(NL)(equil) as functions of R itself. We obtain that both models indicate a small contribution to the non-Gaussianity parameters, which are in good agreement with current observational constraints.

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