Geometric structure of multi-form-field isotropic inflation and primordial fluctuations
arXiv:2201.03160 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2022/05/029
Abstract
An inflationary scenario is expected to be embedded into an ultraviolet (UV) complete theory such as string theory. The effect of UV complete theories may appear as nontrivial kinetic terms in the low energy effective field theory, which provides a nontrivial geometry in field space. In this paper, we study the effect of the geometry of multi-form-field space on an inflationary scenario. In particular, we focus on the geometric destabilization mechanism which induces the phase transition from the conventional slow-roll inflation to a novel inflationary scenario. Anisotropic inflation is a typical example of the new phase. To conform to observations, we restrict us to isotropic configuration of form fields. We clarify the conditions for the onset of the destabilization and reveal the geometric structure of attractors after the destabilization. We classify the viable models from the observational point of view. We also investigate the features of the primordial fluctuations and find the similarity to hyperbolic inflation. By calculating the power spectrum, we make several phenomenological predictions which are useful to discriminate our models from others inflation models. We found the scalar-to-tensor will be suppressed by large one-form gauge fields, while it has the same order as the slow roll parameter for large two-from gauge fields.
arXiv comment46 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables; Pubication version
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