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 . 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.
Cite
@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