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Unified No-Scale Attractors

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-02 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We have presented previously a general treatment of Starobinsky-like inflation in no-scale supergravity where the tensor-to-scalar ratio r=3(1ns)2r = 3(1 - n_s)^2, and nsn_s is the tilt of the scalar perturbations. In particular, we have shown how this scenario can be unified with modulus fixing, supersymmetry breaking and a small cosmological constant. In this paper we extend these constructions to inflationary models based on generalized no-scale structures. In particular, we consider alternative values of the curvature parameter, α<1\alpha < 1, as may occur if not all the complex K\"ahler moduli contribute to driving inflation, as well as α>1\alpha > 1, as may occur if complex structure moduli also contribute to driving inflation. In all cases, we combine these α\alpha-Starobinsky inflation models with supersymmetry breaking and a present-day cosmological constant, allowing for additional contributions to the vacuum energy from stages of gauge symmetry breaking.

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@article{arxiv.1906.10176,
  title  = {Unified No-Scale Attractors},
  author = {John Ellis and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos and Keith A. Olive and Sarunas Verner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10176},
  year   = {2019}
}

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32 pages, 4 figures

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