Spectral indices in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld inflation [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07061


We investigate the scalar and the tensor spectral indices of the quadratic inflation model in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) gravity. We find the EiBI corrections to the spectral indices are of second and first order in the slow-roll approximation for the scalar and the tensor perturbations respectively. This is very promising since the quadratic inflation model in general relativity provides a very nice fit for the spectral indices. Together with the suppression of the tensor-to-scalar ratio EiBI inflation is well along with the observational data.

Read this paper on arXiv…

I. Cho and J. Gong
Wed, 24 Jun 15
19/54

Comments: 9 pages, 1 figure