Constraints from Inflation on Scalar-Tensor Gravity Theories Export

@article{citeulike:754449, abstract = {We show how observations of the perturbation spectra produced during inflation may be used to constrain the parameters of general scalar-tensor theories of gravity, which include both an inflaton and dilaton field. An interesting feature of these models is the possibility that the curvature perturbations on super-horizon scales may not be constant due to non-adiabatic perturbations of the two fields. Within a given model, the tilt and relative amplitude of the scalar and tensor perturbation spectra gives constraints on the parameters of the gravity theory, which may be comparable with those from primordial nucleosynthesis and post-Newtonian experiments.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Garcia-Bellido, Juan and Wands, David}, citeulike-article-id = {754449}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506050}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9506050}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.52.6739}, day = {23}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.52.6739}, eprint = {gr-qc/9506050}, month = {Jun}, posted-at = {2009-11-04 17:18:01}, priority = {2}, title = {Constraints from Inflation on Scalar-Tensor Gravity Theories}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.52.6739}, year = {1995} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:754449 L3 - citeulike-article-id:754449 N2 - We show how observations of the perturbation spectra produced during inflation may be used to constrain the parameters of general scalar-tensor theories of gravity, which include both an inflaton and dilaton field. An interesting feature of these models is the possibility that the curvature perturbations on super-horizon scales may not be constant due to non-adiabatic perturbations of the two fields. Within a given model, the tilt and relative amplitude of the scalar and tensor perturbation spectra gives constraints on the parameters of the gravity theory, which may be comparable with those from primordial nucleosynthesis and post-Newtonian experiments. TI - Constraints from Inflation on Scalar-Tensor Gravity Theories AU - Garcia-Bellido, Juan AU - Wands, David PY - 1995/Jun/23/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.52.6739 ER -