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Non-minimal inflation on the warped Dvali–Gabadadze–Porrati brane

Kourosh Nozari and Behnaz Fazlpour

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We construct an inflation model with the inflaton non-minimally coupled to gravity on a warped Dvali–Gabadadze–Porrati brane. Using an exponential potential, we calculate the scalar power spectrum, spectral index and the running of the spectral index. We show that for a suitable range of non-minimal coupling it is possible to exit the inflationary phase spontaneously and without any mechanism, even in the case where minimal inflation cannot exit spontaneously. By means of a detailed analysis of parameter space, we study the constraints imposed on the non-minimal coupling from recent observational data.


Keywords

cosmology with extra dimensions

cosmological applications of theories with extra dimensions

inflation

PACS

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

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

04.50.-h Higher-dimensional gravity and other theories of gravity

11.25.Wx String and brane phenomenology

11.25.Yb M theory

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2007)

Received 14 August 2007, accepted for publication 16 October 2007

Published 7 November 2007



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