Renormalization-group running induced cosmic inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/028zbMATH Open1492.83103arXiv1909.00580OpenAlexW2971571581MaRDI QIDQ5069166FDOQ5069166

N. Defenu, I. G. Márián, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Andrea Trombettoni, I. Nándori

Publication date: 8 April 2022

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

Abstract: As a contribution to a viable candidate for a standard model of cosmology, we here show that pre-inflationary quantum fluctuations can provide a scenario for the long-sought initial conditions for the inflaton field. Our proposal is based on the assumption that at very high energies (higher than the energy scale of inflation) the vacuum-expectation value (VeV) of the field is trapped in a false vacuum and then, due to renormalization-group (RG) running, the potential starts to flatten out toward low energy, eventually tending to a convex one which allows the field to roll down to the true vacuum. We argue that the proposed mechanism should apply to large classes of inflationary potentials with multiple concave regions. Our findings favor a particle physics origin of chaotic, large-field inflationary models as we eliminate the need for large field fluctuations at the GUT scale. In our analysis, we provide a specific example of such an inflationary potential, whose parameters can be tuned to reproduce the existing cosmological data with good accuracy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00580

zbMATH Keywords

non-Gaussianityparticle physics-cosmology connectioncosmological parameters from CMBRinitial conditions and eternal universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47)

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