https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-022-02853-x
Regular Article
On the number of e-folds in the Jordan and Einstein frames
1
National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Rävala 10, 10143, Tallinn, Estonia
2
Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Ostwaldi 1, 50411, Tartu, Estonia
Received:
12
January
2022
Accepted:
19
May
2022
Published online:
30
May
2022
We investigate how inflationary predictions are affected by the difference in the number of e-folds between the Jordan and Einstein frames. We study several test models in relation to a Jordan frame defined by the common Higgs-inflation-like non-minimal coupling to gravity and consider two different formulations of gravity: metric and Palatini. We find that the difference is quite contained in case of a metric Jordan frame while can be quite remarkable in case of a Palatini Jordan frame. We also discuss a way to overcome the discrepancy by using a frame invariant physical distance and a consequently frame invariant number of e-folds.
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