Geometric structure of multi-form-field isotropic inflation and primordial fluctuations

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/05/029zbMATH Open1505.83025arXiv2201.03160OpenAlexW4221149975MaRDI QIDQ5099307FDOQ5099307

Authors: Chong-Bin Chen, Jiro Soda 

Publication date: 31 August 2022

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

Abstract: An inflationary scenario is expected to be embedded into an ultraviolet (UV) complete theory such as string theory. The effect of UV complete theories may appear as nontrivial kinetic terms in the low energy effective field theory, which provides a nontrivial geometry in field space. In this paper, we study the effect of the geometry of multi-form-field space on an inflationary scenario. In particular, we focus on the geometric destabilization mechanism which induces the phase transition from the conventional slow-roll inflation to a novel inflationary scenario. Anisotropic inflation is a typical example of the new phase. To conform to observations, we restrict us to isotropic configuration of form fields. We clarify the conditions for the onset of the destabilization and reveal the geometric structure of attractors after the destabilization. We classify the viable models from the observational point of view. We also investigate the features of the primordial fluctuations and find the similarity to hyperbolic inflation. By calculating the power spectrum, we make several phenomenological predictions which are useful to discriminate our models from others inflation models. We found the scalar-to-tensor $r$ will be suppressed by large one-form gauge fields, while it has the same order as the slow roll parameter $rsimmathcalO(1)epsilon$ for large two-from gauge fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03160

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationcosmology of theories beyond the SMcosmological perturbation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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