Pole inflation in Jordan frame supergravity
Abstract
We investigate inflation models in Jordan frame supergravity, in which an inflaton non-minimally couples to the scalar curvature. By imposing the condition that an inflaton would have the canonical kinetic term in the Jordan frame, we construct inflation models with asymptotically flat potential through pole inflation technique and discuss their relation to the models based on Einstein frame supergravity. We also show that the model proposed by Ferrara et al. has special position and the relation between the K\"ahler potential and the frame function is uniquely determined by requiring that scalars take the canonical kinetic terms in the Jordan frame and that a frame function consists only of a holomorphic term (and its anti-holomorphic counterpart) for symmetry breaking terms. Our case corresponds to relaxing the latter condition.
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@article{arxiv.1709.03440,
title = {Pole inflation in Jordan frame supergravity},
author = {Ken'ichi Saikawa and Masahide Yamaguchi and Yasuho Yamashita and Daisuke Yoshida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03440},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
27 pages, 1 figure; revised version of the manuscript, accepted for publication in JCAP