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Comment on "Attractor solutions in scalar-field cosmology" and "How many e-folds should we expect from high-scale inflation?"

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-10-31 v2

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 (ϕ,ϕ˙)(\phi,\dot{\phi}) phase space for scalar field with m2ϕ2m^2\phi^2 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 m2ϕ2m^2\phi^2 potential on the (ϕ,ϕ˙)(\phi,\dot{\phi}) 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]