Double inflation via non-minimally coupled spectator

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/06/016MaRDI QIDQ5099328zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mio Kubota, Kin-Ya Oda, Stanislav Rusak, Tomo Takahashi

Publication date 31 August 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04869

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological perturbation theoryinflationphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Adiabatic invariants for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H11) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We argue that double inflation may occur when a spectator field is non-minimally coupled to gravity. As a concrete example, we study a two-field inflationary model where the initial spectator field is non-minimally coupled to gravity while the initial inflaton field is minimally coupled. The non-minimal coupling results in the growth of the spectator field which, in turn, drives the second stage of inflation in a significant region of parameter space. The isocurvature fluctuations originating from the spectator field source adiabatic ones, and hence the spectator non-minimal coupling can modify the inflationary predictions for the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio even though the initial inflaton field is minimally coupled to gravity. We explicitly show that quadratic chaotic inflation can become viable by the introduction of the spectator non-minimal coupling.

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