Renormalization-group techniques for single-field inflation in primordial cosmology and quantum gravity
arXiv:2103.01653 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ac2b07
Abstract
We study inflation as a "cosmic" renormalization-group flow. The flow, which encodes the dependence on the background metric, is described by a running coupling , which parametrizes the slow roll, a de Sitter free, analytic beta function and perturbation spectra that are RG invariant in the superhorizon limit. Using RG invariance as a guiding principle, we classify the main types of flows according to the properties of their spectra, without referring to their origins from specific actions or models. Novel features include spectra with essential singularities in and violations of the relation to the leading order. Various classes of potentials studied in the literature can be described by means of the RG approach, even when the action includes a Weyl-squared term, while others are left out. In known cases, the classification helps identify the models that are ruled out by data. The RG approach is also able to generate spectra that cannot be derived from standard Lagrangian formulations.
arXiv comment35 pages; v2: expanded intro with vocabulary RG flow <-> cosmic RG flow, CQG
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