Consistency Condition for Slow-roll and Rapid-turn Inflation

Abstract

We summarize our work on a consistency condition for inflation in two-field cosmological models, in the regime of rapid turn and third-order slow roll. To ensure a sustained inflationary period of this type, one needs to satisfy a certain relation between the scalar potential and the scalar field-space metric. We explain the derivation of this condition. Furthermore, we argue that, generically, the rapid-turn phase tends to be short-lived.

16 pages, contribution to the proceedings of the 15th international workshop "Lie Theory and its Applications in Physics", Varna, 2023; appendix with examples added

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