Inflationary potentials from the exact renormalisation group

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.06.001zbMATH Open1342.83533arXiv1508.01484OpenAlexW2134260345MaRDI QIDQ2631428FDOQ2631428

Authors: Sašo Grozdanov, David Kraljić, Eirik Eik Svanes 

Publication date: 29 July 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that an inflationary slow-roll potential can be derived as an IR limit of the non-perturbative exact renormalisation group equation for a scalar field within the mean-field approximation. The result follows without having to specify a Lagrangian for the UV theory at the Planck scale. We assume that the theory contains a scalar mode with suppressed coupling to other UV fields, and that higher derivative couplings are suppressed. The resulting effective potential gives rise to slow-roll inflation, which is fully consistent with the recent observations. As an example of how the proposed renormalisation group procedure works, we perform an explicit calculation in the $ph{i}^4$ theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01484

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zbMATH Keywords

slow-roll inflation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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