Magnon inflation: slow roll with steep potentials
Magnon inflation: slow roll with steep potentials
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磁振子膨胀:缓慢滚动,潜力巨大
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2016
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通讯作者:
S. Patil
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作者:
Peter Adshead;D. Blas;C. Burgess;C. Burgess;P. Hayman;P. Hayman;S. Patil
We find multi-scalar effective field theories (EFTs) that can achieve a slow inflationary roll despite having a scalar potential that does not satisfy ?ab ∂a V ∂b V ≪ V2/Mp2 (where ?ab is the target-space metric). They evade the usual slow-roll conditions on V because their kinetic energies are dominated by single-derivative terms rather than the usual two-derivative terms. Single derivatives dominate during slow roll and so do not require a breakdown of the usual derivative expansion that underpins calculational control in much of cosmology. The presence of such terms requires some sort of UV Lorentz-symmetry breaking during inflation (besides the usual cosmological breaking). Chromo-natural inflation provides one particular example of a UV theory that can generate the multi-field single-derivative terms we consider, and we argue that the EFT we find indeed captures the slow-roll conditions for its background evolution. We also show that our EFT can be understood as a multi-field generalization of the single-field Cuscuton models. The multi-field case introduces a new feature, however: the scalar kinetic terms define a target-space 2-form, ℱab, whose antisymmetry gives new ways for slow roll to be achieved.
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2.2
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Blas, Diego;Lim, Eugene
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Lim, Eugene