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Dynamical renormalization and universality in classical multifield cosmological models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-02-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the scaling behavior of classical multifield cosmological models with complete scalar manifold (M,G)({\cal M},{\cal G}) and positive smooth scalar potential Φ\Phi, introducing a dynamical renormalization group action which relates their UV and IR limits. We show that the RG flow of such models interpolates between a modification of the geodesic flow of (M,G)({\cal M},{\cal G}) (obtained in the UV limit) and the gradient flow of (M,G,V)({\cal M},{\cal G},V) (obtained in the IR limit), where the classical effective potential VV is proportional to 2Φ\sqrt{2\Phi}. Using this fact, we show that two-field models whose scalar manifold has constant Gaussian curvature equal to 1-1, 00 or 11 are infrared universal in the sense that they suffice to describe the first order IR approximants of cosmological orbits for all two-field models with positive smooth scalar potential.

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@article{arxiv.2202.13466,
  title  = {Dynamical renormalization and universality in classical multifield cosmological models},
  author = {C. I. Lazaroiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13466},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

55 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor corrections, reference added

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