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Generalised conditions for rapid-turn inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-09-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Rapid-turn slow-roll inflationary trajectories have been shown to be an attractor in two-field models, provided the turn rate is near constant and larger than the slow-roll parameters. These trajectories can produce primordial spectra consistent with current observations on CMB scales. We present the generalized consistency condition for sustained rapid-turn inflationary trajectory with two fields, arbitrary field-space metric and potential valid for any value of the turn rate. This has to be supplemented by a second condition to ensure slow roll evolution. Both conditions together constitute a tool to identify inflationary trajectories with arbitrary values of the turning rate without having to solve the equations of motion. We present a Python package for the numerical identification of regions in field-space and parameter space that allow for rapid-turn trajectories.

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@article{arxiv.2405.11628,
  title  = {Generalised conditions for rapid-turn inflation},
  author = {Raul Wolters and Oksana Iarygina and Ana Achucarro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.11628},
  year   = {2024}
}

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19 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables

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