P-nflation: generating cosmic Inflation with p-forms

2009/02/28 by Cristiano Germani, Alex Kehagias · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2009/03/028

v2: 15 pages; references and a section on stability added. Version accepted for publication in JCAP

arxiv created 2009/03/10 · openalex publication_date 2009/03/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

We show that an inflationary background might be realized by using any p-form non-minimally coupled to gravity. Standard scalar field inflation corresponds to the 0-form case and vector inflation to the 1-form. Moreover, we show that the 2- and 3-form fields are dual to a new vector and scalar inflationary theories where the kinetic terms are non-minimally coupled to gravity.

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