Non-metric inflation

9 Sept 2015, 12:30
20m
Rm 111+112

Rm 111+112

Speaker

Tomi Koivisto (Nordita, Sweden)

Description

A generalisation of the Weyl geometry, where the non-metricity and torsion are given by a single vector field, is presented. Taking into account the leading (quadratic) curvature correction in this geometry results in a one-parameter extension of the Starobinsky inflation, the so-called alpha-attractor model.

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