Multi-field inflation from single-field models

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/08/047MaRDI QIDQ5070242zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Bojowald, Suddhasattwa Brahma, Sean Crowe, Ding Ding, Joseph McCracken

Publication date 11 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02843

zbMATH Keywords

inflationinitial conditions and eternal universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Set functions and measures and integrals in infinite-dimensional spaces (Wiener measure, Gaussian measure, etc.) (28C20) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Quantization implies independent degrees of freedom that do not appear in the classical theory, given by fluctuations, correlations, and higher moments of a state. A systematic derivation of the resulting dynamical systems is presented here in a cosmological application for near-Gaussian states of a single-field inflation model. As a consequence, single-field Higgs inflation is made viable observationally by becoming a multi-field model with a specific potential for a fluctuation field interacting with the inflaton expectation value. Crucially, non-adiabatic methods of semiclassical quantum dynamics reveal important phases that can set suitable initial conditions for slow-roll inflation (in combination with the uncertainty relation), and then end inflation after the observationally preferred number of e-folds. New parameters in the interaction potential are derived from properties of the underlying background state, demonstrating how background non-Gaussianity can affect observational features of inflation or, conversely, how observations may be used to understand the quantum state of the inflaton.

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