Emergence of inflaton potential from asymptotically safe gravity

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Autore principale: Silva, Agustín
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author Silva, Agustín
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contents The Asymptotic Safety Hypothesis for gravity relies on the existence of an interacting fixed point of the Wilsonian renormalization group flow, which controls the microscopic dynamics, and provides a UV completion of the theory. Connecting such UV completion to observable physics has become an active area of research in the last decades. In this work we show such connection within the framework of scalar-tensor models. More specifically, we found that cosmological inflation naturally emerges from the integration of the RG flow equations, and that the predicted parameters of the emergent effective potentials provide a slow-roll model of inflation compatible with current observations. Furthermore, the RG evolution of the effective action starting at the UV fixed point, provides a prediction for the initial value of the inflaton field.
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spellingShingle Emergence of inflaton potential from asymptotically safe gravity
Silva, Agustín
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
The Asymptotic Safety Hypothesis for gravity relies on the existence of an interacting fixed point of the Wilsonian renormalization group flow, which controls the microscopic dynamics, and provides a UV completion of the theory. Connecting such UV completion to observable physics has become an active area of research in the last decades. In this work we show such connection within the framework of scalar-tensor models. More specifically, we found that cosmological inflation naturally emerges from the integration of the RG flow equations, and that the predicted parameters of the emergent effective potentials provide a slow-roll model of inflation compatible with current observations. Furthermore, the RG evolution of the effective action starting at the UV fixed point, provides a prediction for the initial value of the inflaton field.
title Emergence of inflaton potential from asymptotically safe gravity
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10170