Shaposhnikov, MikhailZenhausern, Daniel2010-09-072010-09-072010-09-07200910.1016/j.physletb.2008.11.0542-s2.0-57749106329https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/52978WOS:000262799900036We demonstrate that the combination of the ideas of unimodular gravity, scale invariance, and the existence of an exactly massless dilaton leads to the evolution of the universe supported by present observations: inflation in the past, followed by the radiation and matter dominated stages and accelerated expansion at present. All mass scales in this type of theories come from one and the same source. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Dark energyNon-minimal couplingUnimodular gravityInflationHiggs fieldStandard ModelCosmological ConstantStandard ModelInflationSymmetryMatterUniverseFieldtext::journal::journal article::research article