Consistency of warm k-inflation
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 and , respectively. A proper number of e-folds is obtained in both concrete cases of warm k-inflation. We find a constant dissipative coefficient () is not a workable choice for these two cases while the two cases with 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}
}
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8 pages. Accepted for publication as a Regular Article in Physical Review D