Title	Geometric inflation
Creator	Jaime, Luisa G.
Publisher	Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery
Date Issued	2019-04-29T15:00
Description	We argue that the presence of an inflationary epoch is a natural, almost unavoidable, consequence of the existence of a sensible effective action involving an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action. No additional fields besides the metric are required. This correction to General Relativity has the following features: (i) its vacuum spectrum solely consists of a graviton and is ghost free, (ii) it possesses well-behaved black hole solutions, (iii) its cosmology is well-posed as an initial value problem and, most importantly, (iv) it has the potential to provide a late-time cosmology arbitrarily close to LCDM while, at the same time, giving an inflationary period in the early universe with a graceful exit
Extent	25.0 minutes
Subject	Mathematics; Relativity and gravitational theory; Quantum theory; String theory
Type	Moving Image
File Format	video/mp4
Language	eng
Notes	Author affiliation: UNAM
Series	BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos (Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico))
Date Available	2019-10-27
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0384858
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/72072
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Postdoctoral
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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