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Effective Field Theory of Anisotropic Inflation and Beyond

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-08-14 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We develop an effective-field-theory (EFT) framework for inflation with various symmetry breaking pattern. As a prototype, we formulate anisotropic inflation from the perspective of EFT and construct an effective action of the Nambu-Goldstone bosons for the broken time translation and rotation symmetries. We also calculate the statistical anisotropy in the scalar two-point correlation function for concise examples of the effective action.

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@article{arxiv.1910.11533,
  title  = {Effective Field Theory of Anisotropic Inflation and Beyond},
  author = {Jinn-Ouk Gong and Toshifumi Noumi and Gary Shiu and Jiro Soda and Kazufumi Takahashi and Masahide Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.11533},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages; matches published version