Affine Inflation

Understand

Affine gravity, a gravity theory based on affine connection with no notion of metric, supports scalar field dynamics only if scalar fields have non-vanishing potential.

• The non-vanishing vacuum energy ensures that the cosmological constant is non-vanishing.
• It also ensures that the energy-momentum tensor of vacuum gives the dynamically generated metric tensor.
• We construct this affine setup and study primordial inflation in it.