Comment on "Attractor solutions in scalar-field cosmology" and "How many e-folds should we expect from high-scale inflation?"
Abstract
In Ref. [1], it was claimed that in the spatially flat cosmological case there exists a unique conserved measure (up to normalization) on the phase space for scalar field with potential by finding a unique solution to the differential equation (44) (in Ref. [1]) in the low-energy regime. In Ref. [2], it was also claimed that a unique solution to the same differential equation was found in the high-energy regime and using this solution the authors calculated the expected total number of e-folds of inflation. In this comment, we reanalyze the differential equation (44) and obtain general solutions both in the low-energy and high-energy regime, which can include the solution in Ref. [1] and the solution in Ref. [2] as a special case in the corresponding energy regime. In this way, we find that following the constructions in Ref. [1] there actually exist infinitely many nonequivalent conserved measures for the scalar-field cosmology with potential on the phase space. Moreover, through specific calculations, we also show that different choices of measures can lead to quite different predictions of the expected total number of e-folds of inflation.
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@article{arxiv.2411.06975,
title = {Comment on "Attractor solutions in scalar-field cosmology" and "How many e-folds should we expect from high-scale inflation?"},
author = {Yu Han and Long Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.06975},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
5 pages,4 captioned figures, Comment on arXiv:1309.2611 [gr-qc] and arXiv:1405.5538 [hep-th]