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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMETRIC METHODS IN MODERN PHYSICS
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0219887818501372
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Inflationary cosmology; f(R) gravity; scalar-tensor gravity
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- Research Committee of the Technological Education Institute of Central Macedonia, Serres [SAT/ME/170118-14/14]
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In this paper, we investigate the inflationary dynamics of an f(R) gravity in the presence of a canonical scalar field. We specifically choose the cosmological evolution to be a quasi-de Sitter evolution and also the f(R) gravity is assumed to be a modified version of the R-2 gravity. We investigate which scalar field potential can produce the quasi-de Sitter evolution for the choice of the f(R) gravity we made, and also we study in detail the inflationary dynamics of the resulting theory. As we demonstrate, the spectral index is identical to the one corresponding to the ordinary R-2 gravity, while the scalar-to-tensor ratio is found to be smaller than the R-2 inflation one consequently, compatibility with both the Planck 2015 and BICEP2/Keck-Array data is achieved.
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