M-flation and its spectators
arXiv:1009.0421 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2010/11/038
Abstract
M-flation is an implementation of assisted inflation, in which the inflaton fields are three N_c x N_c non-abelian hermitean matrices. The model can be consistently truncated to an effectively single field inflation model, with all ``spectator'' fields fixed at the origin. We show that starting with random initial conditions for all fields the truncated sector is not a late-time attractor, but instead the system evolves towards quadratic assisted inflation with all fields mass degenerate. Demanding the energy density during inflation to be below the effective quantum gravity scale, we find that the number of fields, and thus the assisted effect, is bounded N_c < 10^2.
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