Inflation driven by q-de Sitter

TL;DR

This paper introduces a generalized q-de Sitter scale factor for cosmology, unifying early and late universe models, and explores inflation scenarios including warm inflation, showing compatibility with observational data.

Contribution

It proposes a new q-de Sitter scale factor framework that describes dark components and inflation without requiring a specific inflation end point.

Findings

Inflation ends at q=3/4 without specifying φ_end

Scale-invariant spectrum approximated at q=9/10 with N=70

Model compatible with BICEP2 data for certain q and R values

Abstract

We propose a generalised de Sitter scale factor for the cosmology of early and late time universe, including single scalar field is called as inflaton. This form of scale factor has a free parameter $q$ is called as nonextensivity parameter. When $q=1$, the scale factor is de Sitter. This scale factor is an intermediate form between power-law and de Sitter. We study cosmology of such families. We show that both kinds of dark components, dark energy and dark matter simultaneously are described by this family of solutions. As a motivated idea, we investigate inflation in the framework of $q$-de Sitter. We consider three types of scenarios for inflation. In a single inflation scenario, we observe that, inflation ended without any specific ending inflation $\phi_{end}$, the spectral index and the associated running of the spectral index are %$ n_\mathrm{s} - 1 \sim -2\epsilon, \quad \alpha_\mathrm{s} \equiv 0 $. To end the inflation: we should have $q=\frac{3}{4}$. We deduce that the inflation ends when the evolution of the scale factor is $a (t) =e_ {3/4} (t) $. With this scale factor there is no need to specify $\phi_{end}$. As an alternative to have inflation with ending point, We will study q-inflation model in the context of warm inflation. We propose two forms of damping term $\Gamma$. In the first case when $\Gamma=\Gamma_0$, we show the scale invariant spectrum, (Harrison-Zeldovich spectrum, i.e. $n_s=1$) may be approximately presented by ($q=\frac{9}{10},~~N=70$). Also there is a range of values of $R$ and $n_s$ which is compatible with the BICEP2 data where $q=\frac{9}{10}$. In case $\Gamma=\Gamma_1V(\phi)$, it is observed that small values of a number of e-folds are assured for small values of $q$ parameter. For $q=\frac{9}{10}$ a range of values of $R$ and $n_s$ is compatible with the BICEP2 data.