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The effective gravitational Lagrangian and the energy-momentum tensor in the inflationary Universe

J P Duruisseau and R Kerner

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The inflationary model proposed by Guth (1981), is based on non-classical behaviour of the energy-momentum tensor. The authors try to evaluate the corrections to the usual linear relation between the scalar curvature and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, R approximately T, replacing the usual Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian R by an unknown function f(R) and imposing the inflationary solution upon the scale factor a(t) of the Robertson-Walker metric. Solving for f(R) enables one to evaluate the corrections to the relation R approximately T, which may be developed in powers of R or T at will.


PACS

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

04.20.Fy Canonical formalism, Lagrangians, and variational principles

MSC

83F05 Cosmology

83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 5 (September 1986)



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