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arxiv: 1812.01287 · v2 · pith:WWKGH5LVnew · submitted 2018-12-04 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.CO· hep-th

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

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In this paper we establish \textit{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 $n_{\rm s}$, $r$, $\alpha_{\rm s}$ and $f^{\text{equil}}_{\text{NL}}$ 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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