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Dynamical consistency conditions for rapid turn inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-05-18 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We derive consistency conditions for sustained slow roll and rapid turn inflation in two-field cosmological models with oriented scalar field space, which imply that inflationary models with field-space trajectories of this type are non-generic. In particular, we show that third order adiabatic slow roll, together with large and slowly varying turn rate, requires the scalar potential of the model to satisfy a certain nonlinear second order PDE, whose coefficients depend on the scalar field metric. We also derive consistency conditions for slow roll inflationary solutions in the so called ``rapid turn attractor'' approximation, as well as study the consistency conditions for circular rapid turn trajectories with slow roll in two-field models with rotationally invariant field space metric. Finally, we argue that the rapid turn regime tends to have a natural exit after a limited number of e-folds.

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@article{arxiv.2210.00031,
  title  = {Dynamical consistency conditions for rapid turn inflation},
  author = {Lilia Anguelova and Calin Iuliu Lazaroiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00031},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

39 pages; minor improvements, references and appendix added

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