Angular inflation in multi-field α-attractors

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作者
Christodoulidis, Perseas [1 ]
Roest, Diederik [1 ]
Sfakianakis, Evangelos I. [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Groningen, Van Swinderen Inst Particle Phys & Grav, Nijenborgh 4, NL-9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
[2] Nikhef, Sci Pk 105, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[3] Leiden Univ, Lorentz Inst Theoret Phys, Niels Bohrweg 2, NL-2333 CA Leiden, Netherlands
关键词
inflation; string theory and cosmology; PERTURBATIONS; FLATNESS; UNIVERSE; HORIZON; MODELS;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2019/11/002
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We explore the dynamics of multi-field models of inflation in which the field-space metric is a hyperbolic manifold of constant curvature. Such models are known as alpha-attractors and their single-field regimes have been extensively studied in the context of inflation and supergravity. We find a variety of multi-field inflationary trajectories in different regions of parameter space, which is spanned by the mass parameters and the hyperbolic curvature. Amongst these is a novel dynamical attractor along the boundary of the Poincare disc which we dub "angular inflation". We calculate the evolution of adiabatic and isocurvature fluctuations during this regime and show that, while isocurvature modes decay during this phase, the duration of the angular inflation period can shift the single-field predictions of alpha-attractors. For highly curved field-space manifolds, this can lead to predictions that lie outside the current observational bounds.
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