Universality of linear perturbations in SU($N$)-natural inflation

Abstract

We prove the universality of predictions for linear perturbations from the entire class of models of inflation driven by a pseudo-scalar field coupled to an SU($N$) gauge boson, where SU($2$) subgroups in the SU($N$) crossed with the background spatial SO($3$) spontaneously break into a single SO($3$). The effect of which SU($2$) subgroup in SU($N$) acquires a VEV through spontaneous symmetry breaking can be quantified by a single parameter $\lambda$, which always appears in combination with the gauge coupling constant $g$. In the linear perturbations, as well as the background system, the same dynamics and predictions as in the chromo-natural inflation hold for its SU($N$) extension by replacing $g\to g\lambda$. The latter models thereby draw the same prediction curve on the $n_s$-$r$ plane as the former at the tree level as long as $g\lambda$ stays constant during inflation. We briefly discuss possible transitions from one value of $\lambda$ to another during inflation and the observational prospects.

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