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Large Field Inflation in Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We present a supergravity inflationary scenario in which the inflaton field takes values considerably larger than the Planck scale. It is based on a class of inflationary potentials which can be derived from ``singular'' Kaehler potentials assuming simple superpotentials of the type W\simSnW\simS^n. To this class belong, among many others, all potentials which are even infinitesimally smaller than the one derived from the minimal Kaehler potential. Our scenario allows for a detectable gravitational wave contribution to the microwave background anisotropy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9802263,
  title  = {Large Field Inflation in Supergravity},
  author = {C. Panagiotakopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9802263},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, Revtex, 6 ps figures. New title, partially rewritten and extended. To be published in Phys. Rev. D