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Kourosh Nozari

Kourosh Nozari

Academic rank: Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4368-5823
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 9276301800
Faculty: Science
Address: Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Mazandaran, P. O. Box 47416-95447, Babolsar, Iran
Phone: 01135302482

Research

Title
Cosmological inflation in a generalized unimodular gravity
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Cosmological inflation; extended theories of gravity; unimodular gravity; cosmological perturbation.
Year
2017
Journal INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
DOI
Researchers Kourosh Nozari ، Somaieh Shafizadeh

Abstract

We study some aspects of cosmological inflation in the framework of unimodular f(R) gravity. To be more clearer, we consider a generic f(R) of the type f(R) = R + αRn. By considering the Einstein frame counterpart of the unimodular f(R) gravity, we set the scalaron to be responsible for cosmological inflation in this setup. We confront our model parameters space with observational data and impose some constraints on the value of n in this manner. We show that for the number of e-folds N = 60, the model is consistent with observation if 1.89 < n < 1.918.