Warm inflation in Horndeski gravity

TL;DR

This paper explores warm inflation within Horndeski gravity, analyzing models that achieve early universe acceleration under different dissipation regimes and examining associated cosmological perturbations.

Contribution

It introduces specific models of warm inflation in Horndeski gravity and analyzes their perturbations, expanding the understanding of early universe dynamics in this framework.

Findings

Early-time acceleration achieved in weak and strong dissipation regimes

Cosmological perturbations analyzed in these models

Provides new insights into inflationary dynamics in Horndeski gravity

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a class of Horndeski scalar-tensor theory of gravity for warm inflation. We present some models where the early-time acceleration is realized in the weak and in the strong dissipation regime. Cosmological perturbations are analyzed.