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Boundary Crossing in Stochastic Inflation with Critical Number of Fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-10 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Statistical Mechanics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study boundary crossing probability in the context of stochastic inflation. We prove that for a generic multi-field inflationary potential, the probability that the inflaton reaches infinitely far regions in the field space is critically dependent on the number of fields, being nonzero for more than two fields, and zero otherwise. We also provide several examples where the boundary crossing probability can be calculated exactly, most notably, for a particular landscape of a two-field model with a multi-well potential.

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@article{arxiv.1907.13149,
  title  = {Boundary Crossing in Stochastic Inflation with Critical Number of Fields},
  author = {Mahdiyar Noorbala and Hassan Firouzjahi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.13149},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

22 pages, 7 figures; minor changes, reference added