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arxiv: 1712.09522 · v1 · pith:G24TQUD7new · submitted 2017-12-27 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.CO

Cosmological Inflation in a Generalized Unimodular Gravity

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We study some aspects of cosmological inflation in the framework of unimodular $f(R)$ gravity. To be more clarified, we consider a generic $f(R)$ of the type $f(R)=R+\alpha R^{n}$. By considering Einstein frame counterpart of the unimodular $f(R)$ gravity, we set the scalaron to be responsible for cosmological inflation in this setup. We confront our model parameters space with observational data and impose some constraints on the value of $n$ in this manner. We show that for the number of e-folds $N=60$, the model is consistent with observation if $1.89<n<1.918$.

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