(No) Eternal Inflation in the Starobinsky Inflation Corrected by Higher Curvature Invariants

Abstract

The swampland criteria in string theory assert the no eternal inflation scenario. This work studied the impact of generic gravitational quantum corrections on eternal inflation. In particular, we find that the Starobinsky model of inflation should receive higher-order corrections stemming from quantum gravity. In this work, we studied the effect of the R3/2 and R4 corrections on the eternal inflation conditions for the Starobinsky model.

Keywords

• eternal inflation
• Starobinsky inflation
• quantum corrections