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$SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ Cosmological Attractors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-10-11 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study cosmological theory where the kinetic term and potential have SL(2,Z)SL(2,\mathbb{Z}) symmetry. Potentials have a plateau at large values of the inflaton field, where the axion forms a flat direction. Due to the underlying hyperbolic geometry and special features of SL(2,Z)SL(2,\mathbb{Z}) potentials, the theory exhibits an α\alpha-attractor behavior: its cosmological predictions are stable with respect to significant modifications of the SL(2,Z)SL(2,\mathbb{Z}) invariant potentials. We present a supersymmetric version of this theory in the framework of D3\overline {D3} induced geometric inflation. The choice of α\alpha is determined by underlying string compactification. For example, in a CY compactification with T2T^2, one has 3α=13\alpha=1, the lowest discrete Poincar\'e disk target for LiteBIRD

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@article{arxiv.2408.05203,
  title  = {$SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ Cosmological Attractors},
  author = {Renata Kallosh and Andrei Linde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05203},
  year   = {2024}
}

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