Finite temperature effects in modular cosmology

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/033zbMATH Open1493.83029arXiv2005.03939OpenAlexW3134004592MaRDI QIDQ5070944FDOQ5070944

Authors: Diego Gallego 

Publication date: 14 April 2022

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

Abstract: We revisit the cosmological history in the presence of light moduli by including possible thermal effects in the scalar potential. The well known cosmological moduli problem regards initial energy stored in the moduli due to a misalignment from its final position during inflation. We show that finite temperature corrections to the scalar potential, in general, induce similar effects and these are likely to overcome the ones from the misalignment. This changes important parameters like the preferred window for the numbers of e-fold during inflation and the final reheating temperature in a model-dependent manner. The general implications are a longer late modulus dominated epoch and a larger final reheating temperature. We explore all the discussed elements in type-IIB superstring Large Volume Compactification with a K"ahler inflationary scenario, where zero temperature results are known. An instability analysis, using a Floquet approach, is also performed for this explicit case finding strong indications of possible oscillon production around a nearly universal normalized critical temperature, where the Floquet exponents show a divergent behaviour.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03939

zbMATH Keywords

inflationcosmology of theories beyond the SMsupersymmetry and cosmologystring theory and cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Unified quantum theories (81V22) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05)

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