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Gravitational waves in $\alpha-$attractors

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-11-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study inflation in the α\alpha-attractor model under a non-slow-roll dynamics with an ansatz proposed by Gong \& Sasaki \cite{Gong:2015ypa} of assuming N=N(ϕ)N=N\left(\phi\right). Under this approach, we construct a class of local shapes of inflaton potential that are different from the T-models. We find this type of inflationary scenario predicts an attractor at ns0.967n_{s}\sim0.967 and r0.00055r\sim0.00055. In our approach, the non-slow-roll inflaton dynamics are related to the α\alpha-parameter which is the curvature of K\"ahler geometry in the SUGRA embedding of this model.

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@article{arxiv.1512.08490,
  title  = {Gravitational waves in $\alpha-$attractors},
  author = {K. Sravan Kumar and João Marto and Paulo Vargas Moniz and Suratna Das},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08490},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of "The Fourtheenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, July 12-18, 2015, based on a talk delivered at the ST4 parallel session

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