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arxiv: 1802.06069 · v2 · pith:GMRRRNPOnew · submitted 2018-02-16 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc· hep-ph· hep-th

Inflation in a scale invariant universe

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keywords theoryscalarscaleinflationinvariantisocurvaturemodesuniverse
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A scale-invariant universe can have a period of accelerated expansion at early times: inflation. We use a frame-invariant approach to calculate inflationary observables in a scale invariant theory of gravity involving two scalar fields - the spectral indices, the tensor to scalar ratio, the level of isocurvature modes and non-Gaussianity. We show that scale symmetry leads to an exact cancellation of isocurvature modes and that, in the scale-symmetry broken phase, this theory is well described by a single scalar field theory. We find the predictions of this theory strongly compatible with current observations.

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