On the Renormalization Group perspective of $\alpha$-attractors
Abstract
In this short paper we outline a recipe for the reconstruction of gravity starting from single field inflationary potentials in the Einstein frame. For simple potentials one can compute the explicit form of , whilst for more involved examples one gets a parametric form of . The reconstruction algorithm is used to study various examples: power-law , exponential and -attractors. In each case it is seen that for large (corresponding to large value of inflaton field), . For the case of -attractors for all values of inflaton field (for all values of ) as . For generic inflaton potential , it is seen that if (for some ) then the corresponding . We then study -attractors in more detail using non-perturbative renormalisation group methods to analyse the reconstructed . It is seen that is an ultraviolet stable fixed point of the renormalisation group trajectories.
Cite
@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