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Tilt and Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio in Multifield Monodromy Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-05-07 v1

Abstract

We study the possible range of the tilt nsn_s and the tensor-to-scalar ratio rr in multifield versions of a class of inflationary models from string theory. We show that rr is the same between the single field models and multifield models while nsn_s is bounded above by the results of single field models. Below its maximum value, nsn_s depends on the specific distributions of parameters in the model. The general trend is that the wider the distributions are, the smaller nsn_s is. We show that nsn_s does not have a rigorous lower bound. It is argued, however, that models predicting arbitrarily small nsn_s only constitute a small portion of the possible ones and for the vast majority of models, nsn_s is bounded below by predictions given by models with uniformly distributed parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1405.1411,
  title  = {Tilt and Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio in Multifield Monodromy Inflation},
  author = {Danjie Wenren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1411},
  year   = {2014}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures