Landscape of Modular Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2024-11-13 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We investigate the global structure of the recently discovered family of -invariant potentials describing inflationary -attractors. These potentials have an inflationary plateau consisting of the fundamental domain and its images fully covering the upper part of the Poincar\'e half-plane. Meanwhile, the lower part of the half-plane is covered by an infinitely large number of ridges, which, at first glance, are too sharp to support inflation. However, we show that this apparent sharpness is just an illusion created by hyperbolic geometry, and each of these ridges is physically equivalent to the inflationary plateau in the upper part of the Poincar\'e half-plane.
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@article{arxiv.2411.07552,
title = {Landscape of Modular Cosmology},
author = {Renata Kallosh and Andrei Linde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.07552},
year = {2024}
}
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