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DBI Lifshitz Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-27 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

A new model of DBI inflation is introduced where the mobile brane, the inflaton field, is moving relativistically inside a Lifshitz throat with an arbitrary anisotropic scaling exponent zz. After dimensional reduction to four dimension the general covariance is broken explicitly both in the matter and the gravitational sectors. The general action for the metric and matter field perturbations are obtained and it is shown to be similar to the classifications made in the effective field theory of inflation literature.

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@article{arxiv.1103.2919,
  title  = {DBI Lifshitz Inflation},
  author = {Mohsen Alishahiha and Hassan Firouzjahi and Mohammad Hossein Namjoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.2919},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Version 3: minor typos corrected, the JCAP published version

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