Initial condition for new inflation in supergravity

Abstract

We study the initial value problem of new inflation models in the scheme of supergravity. We find that an inflaton generally acquires a mass of the order of the Hubble parameter via gravitationally suppressed interactions with particles in the thermal bath of the universe. This additional mass term stabilizes dynamically the inflaton at the local maximum of the potential, which offers the initial condition of new inflation.

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