The isotropic attractor solution of axion-SU(2) inflation: universal isotropization in Bianchi type-I geometry

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/09/031MaRDI QIDQ5061972zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ira Wolfson, Azadeh Maleknejad, Tomoaki Murata, Eiichiro Komatsu, Tsutomu Kobayashi

Publication date 14 March 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06259

zbMATH Keywords

axionsinflationparticle physics-cosmology connectionquantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametrization (Chow and Hilbert schemes) (14C05) Homogeneous spaces and generalizations (14M17) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Anisotropy in solid mechanics (74E10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Nuclear physics (81V35) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: SU(2) gauge fields coupled to an axion field can acquire an isotropic background solution during inflation. We study homogeneous but anisotropic inflationary solutions in the presence of such (massless) gauge fields. A gauge field in the cosmological background may pose a threat to spatial isotropy. We show, however, that such models $extitgenerally$ isotropize in Bianchi type-I geometry, and the isotropic solution is the attractor. Restricting the setup by adding an axial symmetry, we revisited the numerical analysis presented in Wolfson et.al (2020). We find that the reported numerical breakdown in the previous analysis is an artifact of parametrization singularity. We use a new parametrization that is well-defined all over the phase space. We show that the system respects the cosmic no-hair conjecture and the anisotropies always dilute away within a few e-folds.

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