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Journal of Modern Physics, 2012, 3, 1081-1087 /10.4236/jmp.2012.39142 Published Online September 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jmp) Dirac-Born-Infeld-Einstein Theory with Weyl Invariance 1 2 3* Takuya Maki , Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi 1Japan Women’s College of Physical Education, Tokyo, Japan 2Yamaguchi Junior College, Hōfu, Japan 3Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan * Email: shiraish@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp Received June 27, 2012; revised July 26, 2012; accepted August 5, 2012 ABSTRACT Weyl invariant gravity has been investigated as the fundamental theory of the vector inflation. Accordingly, we con- sider a Weyl invariant extension of Dirac-Born-Infeld type gravity. We find that an appropriate choice of the metric removes the scalar degree of freedom which is at the first sight required by the local scale invariance of the action, and then a vector field acquires mass. Then non-minimal couplings of the vector field and curvatures are induced. We find that the Dirac-Born-Infeld type gravity is a suitable theory to the vector inflation scenario. Keywords: Modified Theories of Gravity; Weyl Invariance; Inflation 1. Introduction scalar field in the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker universe. Moreover, the energy density is expressed as ~ The cosmological inflation is proposed as some resolu-