Trans-Planckian Censorship and single-field inflaton potential

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/01/008zbMATH Open1489.83090arXiv1910.09460OpenAlexW3101412304MaRDI QIDQ5067792FDOQ5067792

Authors: Kenji Kadota, Chang Sub Shin, Takahiro Terada, Gansukh Tumurtushaa 

Publication date: 4 April 2022

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

Abstract: It was recently proposed that a field theory cannot be consistent with quantum gravity if it allows a mode shorter than the Planck length to exit the Hubble horizon. This is called the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC). We discuss the implications of the TCC on the possible shape of the inflaton potential in single-field slow-roll inflation. We point out that (1) there is generically an initial condition in which the total e-folding number $N_{e}xttotal$ is doubled or more compared to the e-folds necessary for the cosmic microwave background fluctuations, and (2) a sizable negative running of spectral index is generically expected to make $N_{e}xttotal$ small. In concrete setups, we find a stringent constraint on the inflationary energy scale, $V_{e}xt{inf}^{1/4}<mathcalO(10),extTeV$ with $r<mathcalO(10^{-50})$, and the running parameter is bounded above as $alph{a}_{e}xtslesssim-4imes10^{-3}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09460

zbMATH Keywords

inflationcosmology of theories beyond the SMinitial conditions and eternal universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47)

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