English

Revisiting slow-roll inflation in nonminimal derivative coupling with potentials

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-10-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the slow-roll inflation in the nonminimal derivative coupling (NDC) model with exponential, quadric, and quartic potentials. It was known that this model provides an enhanced slow-roll inflation induced by gravitationally enhanced friction even for a steep exponential potential. In the phase portrait, the inflationary attractor is described by the slow-roll equation. Introducing the autonomous form, the inflation is regarded as an emergence from the saddle point and it leaves this fixed point along the slow-roll equation. We show explicitly that if one uses the NDC with potentials, the slow-roll inflation is easier to be implemented than the canonical coupling with the same potentials.

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@article{arxiv.1505.04027,
  title  = {Revisiting slow-roll inflation in nonminimal derivative coupling with potentials},
  author = {Yun Soo Myung and Taeyoon Moon and Bum-Hoon Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04027},
  year   = {2015}
}

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1+16 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, version accepted for publication in JCAP

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