Polynomial α-attractors

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/017zbMATH Open1506.83058arXiv2202.06492OpenAlexW4223513754MaRDI QIDQ5099249FDOQ5099249

Authors: Andrei Linde, Renata Kallosh 

Publication date: 31 August 2022

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

Abstract: Inflationary $alpha$-attractor models can be naturally implemented in supergravity with hyperbolic geometry. They have stable predictions for observables, such as $n_s=1-2/N_e$, assuming that the potential in terms of the original geometric variables, as well as its derivatives, are not singular at the boundary of the hyperbolic disk, or half-plane. In these models, the potential in the canonically normalized inflaton field $varphi$ has a plateau, which is approached exponentially fast at large $varphi$. We call them exponential $alpha$-attractors. We present a closely related class of models, where the potential is not singular, but its derivative is singular at the boundary. The resulting inflaton potential is also a plateau potential, but it approaches the plateau polynomially. We call them polynomial $alpha$-attractors. Predictions of these two families of attractors completely cover the sweet spot of the Planck/BICEP/Keck data. The exponential ones are on the left, the polynomial are on the right.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06492

zbMATH Keywords

inflationsupersymmetry and cosmologyinflation and CMBR theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Quantum optics (81V80) Attractors (35B41) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Probabilistic methods in extremal combinatorics, including polynomial methods (combinatorial Nullstellensatz, etc.) (05D40)

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