Conformal α-attractor inflation with Weyl gauge field

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/03/067MaRDI QIDQ5068442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yong Tang, Yue-Liang Wu

Publication date 6 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07610

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational waves/sourcesinflationmodified gravityphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Attractors (35B41) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Gravitational waves (83C35) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: Conformal scaling invariance should play an important role for understanding the origin and evolution of universe. During inflation period, it appears to be an approximate symmetry, but how it is broken remains uncertain. The appealing $alpha$-attractor inflation implements the spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry and a mysterious SO(1,1) global symmetry. To better understand the SO(1,1) symmetry, here we present a systematic treatment of the inflation models with local conformal symmetry in a more general formalism. We find SO(2) is the other possible symmetry in the presence of Weyl gauge field. We also obtain all the analytic solutions that relate the inflation fields between Jordan frame and Einstein frame. We illustrate a class of inflation models with the approximate SO(2) symmetry and trigonometric potential, and find that it can fit the current observations and will be probed by future CMB experiments.

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