Random Potentials and Cosmological Attractors

Abstract

I show that the problem of realizing inflation in theories with random potentials of a limited number of fields can be solved, and agreement with the observational data can be naturally achieved if at least one of these fields has a non-minimal kinetic term of the type used in the theory of cosmological $\alpha$-attractors.

12 pages, 5 figures, references added

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