Geneva University seminars

Inflation from scale-invariant gravity

by Massimo Rinaldi (Università di Trento)

Europe/Zurich
Room 234 (Geneva University)

Room 234

Geneva University

24, quai Ernest Ansermet 1211 Geneva 4
Description
Motivated by the search for inflationary models with a non-negligible tensor-to-scalar ratio, we discuss scale-invariant quadratic gravity with loop quantum corrections. This model is fundamentally distinct from the Starobinsky one and yields precise observational signatures. As we will show, the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio do not depend on the parameters of the theory but just on the number of efolds. In particular, we find that r ~ 0.07.