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Consistency of warm k-inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-12-06 v1

Abstract

We extend the k-inflation which is a type of kinetically driven inflationary model under the standard inflationary scenario to a possible warm inflationary scenario. The dynamical equations of this warm k-inflation model are obtained. We rewrite the slow-roll parameters which are different from the usual potential driven inflationary models and perform a linear stability analysis to give the proper slow-roll conditions in the warm k-inflation. Two cases, a power-law kinetic function and an exponential kinetic function, are studied, when the dissipative coefficient Γ=Γ0\Gamma=\Gamma_0 and Γ=Γ(ϕ)\Gamma=\Gamma(\phi), respectively. A proper number of e-folds is obtained in both concrete cases of warm k-inflation. We find a constant dissipative coefficient (Γ=Γ0\Gamma=\Gamma_0) is not a workable choice for these two cases while the two cases with Γ=Γ(ϕ)\Gamma=\Gamma(\phi) are self-consistent warm inflationary models.

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@article{arxiv.1611.02789,
  title  = {Consistency of warm k-inflation},
  author = {Zhi-Peng Peng and Jia-Ning Yu and Xiao-Min Zhang and Jian-Yang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.02789},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages. Accepted for publication as a Regular Article in Physical Review D