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Open Inflation With Scalar-tensor Gravity

Jae-weon Lee, Seoktae Koh, Chul H. Lee

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9805164

Abstract

The open inflation model recently proposed by Hawking and Turok is investigated in scalar-tensor gravity context. If the dilaton-like field has no potential, the instanton of our model is singular but has a finite action. The Gibbons-Hawking surface term vanishes and hence, can not be used to make Ω0 nonzero. To obtain a successful open inflation one should introduce other matter fields or a potential for the dilaton-like fields.

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