TY - JOUR
T1 - A new parameter in attractor single-field inflation
AU - Gong, Jinn Ouk
AU - Sasaki, Misao
N1 - Funding Information:
JG is grateful to the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics for hospitality while this work was under progress. JG acknowledges the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Gyeongsangbuk-Do and Pohang City for the support of the Independent Junior Research Group at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics. This work is also supported in part by a Starting Grant through the Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea ( 2013R1A1A1006701 ) and the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) No. 21244033 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors.
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - We revisit the notion of slow-roll in the context of general single-field inflation. As a generalization of slow-roll dynamics, we consider an inflaton ϕ in an attractor phase where the time derivative of ϕ is determined by a function of ϕ, ϕ˙=ϕ˙(ϕ). In other words, we consider the case when the number of e-folds N counted backward in time from the end of inflation is solely a function of ϕ, N=. N(ϕ). In this case, it is found that we need a new independent parameter to properly describe the dynamics of the inflaton field in general, in addition to the standard parameters conventionally denoted by ε, η, cs2 and s. Two illustrative examples are presented to discuss the non-slow-roll dynamics of the inflaton field consistent with observations.
AB - We revisit the notion of slow-roll in the context of general single-field inflation. As a generalization of slow-roll dynamics, we consider an inflaton ϕ in an attractor phase where the time derivative of ϕ is determined by a function of ϕ, ϕ˙=ϕ˙(ϕ). In other words, we consider the case when the number of e-folds N counted backward in time from the end of inflation is solely a function of ϕ, N=. N(ϕ). In this case, it is found that we need a new independent parameter to properly describe the dynamics of the inflaton field in general, in addition to the standard parameters conventionally denoted by ε, η, cs2 and s. Two illustrative examples are presented to discuss the non-slow-roll dynamics of the inflaton field consistent with observations.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.023
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84934968688
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 747
SP - 390
EP - 394
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -