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Measures in Mutlifield Inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-09-19 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We examine the classical dynamics of multifield inflation models with quadratic potentials. Such models are shown to have inflationary attractors in phase space, consistent with the stretching of phase space trajectories along the volume factor of the universe during inflation. Using the symplectic structure associated with Hamiltonian systems we form a measure on the phase space, as initially proposed by Gibbons, Hawking and Stewart. This is used to calculate lower bounds on the probabilities of observational agreement (i.e. the probability the model gives a value for the spectral index within the region ns=0.968±0.006n_{s}=0.968\pm{0.006}) for equal mass two and three field models with quadratic potentials, giving values of 0.982 and 0.997 respectively. We derive the measure for a general NN-field model and argue that as the number of fields approaches infinity, the probability of observational agreement approaches one.

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@article{arxiv.1609.05069,
  title  = {Measures in Mutlifield Inflation},
  author = {Richard Grumitt and David Sloan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.05069},
  year   = {2016}
}

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16 pages, 3 figures

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