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On the Renormalization Group perspective of $\alpha$-attractors

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-11-01 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this short paper we outline a recipe for the reconstruction of F(R)F(R) gravity starting from single field inflationary potentials in the Einstein frame. For simple potentials one can compute the explicit form of F(R)F(R), whilst for more involved examples one gets a parametric form of F(R)F(R). The F(R)F(R) reconstruction algorithm is used to study various examples: power-law ϕn\phi^n, exponential and α\alpha-attractors. In each case it is seen that for large RR (corresponding to large value of inflaton field), F(R)R2F(R) \sim R^2. For the case of α\alpha-attractors F(R)R2F(R) \sim R^2 for all values of inflaton field (for all values of RR) as α0\alpha\to0. For generic inflaton potential V(ϕ)V(\phi), it is seen that if V/V0V^\prime/V \to0 (for some ϕ\phi) then the corresponding F(R)R2F(R) \sim R^2. We then study α\alpha-attractors in more detail using non-perturbative renormalisation group methods to analyse the reconstructed F(R)F(R). It is seen that α0\alpha\to0 is an ultraviolet stable fixed point of the renormalisation group trajectories.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00830,
  title  = {On the Renormalization Group perspective of $\alpha$-attractors},
  author = {Gaurav Narain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00830},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

1+17 pages, 2 figures. Typos corrected, new references added, additional paragraph added in conclusion. Accepted for publication in JCAP