A novel way of constraining the α-attractor chaotic inflation through Planck data

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/11/029MaRDI QIDQ5062291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arunoday Sarkar, Chitrak Sarkar, Buddhadeb Ghosh

Publication date 15 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02920

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological perturbation theoryinflationquantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Cyclic vectors, hypercyclic and chaotic operators (47A16) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Defining a scale of $k$-modes of the quantum fluctuations during inflation through the dynamical horizon crossing condition $k=aH$ we go from the physical $t$ variable to $k$ variable and solve the equations of cosmological first-order perturbations self consistently, with the chaotic $alpha$-attractor type potentials. This enables us to study the behaviour of $n_s$, $r$, $n_t$ and $N$ in the $k$-space. Comparison of our results in the low-$k$ regime with the Planck data puts constraints on the values of the $alpha$ parameter through microscopic calculations. Recent studies had already put model-dependent constraints on the values of $alpha$ through the hyperbolic geometry of a Poincar'{e} disk: consistent with both the maximal supergravity model $mathcalN=8$ and the minimal supergravity model $mathcalN=1$, the constraints on the values of $alpha$ are $frac13$, $frac23$, 1, $frac43$, $frac53$, 2, $frac73$. The minimal $mathcalN=1$ supersymmetric cosmological models with $B$-mode targets, derived from these supergravity models, predicted the values of $r$ between $10^{-2}$ and $10^{-3}$. Both in the $E$-model and the $T$-model potentials, we have obtained, in our calculations, the values of $r$ in this range for all the constrained values of $alpha$ stated above, within $68\mathrm{\%}$ CL. Moreover, we have calculated $r$ for some other possible values of $alpha$ both in low-$alpha$ limit, using the formula $r=frac12alpha{N}^2$, and in the high-$alpha$ limit, using the formula $r=frac4nN$, for $n=2$ and $4$. With all such values of $alpha$, our calculated results match with the Planck-2018 data with $68\mathrm{\%}$ or near $95\mathrm{\%}$ CL.

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