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$\alpha$-attractor from superconformal E-models in brane inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-15 v2

Abstract

In the large extra dimensional braneworld inflation, Friedmann equation is modified to include a quadratic term in energy density with an additional parameter λ\lambda called brane tension in addition to the usual linear term. The high energy brane corrections modify the slow-roll parameters and affect the behaviour of inflation. We analyse the superconformal inflation for E-models and find that there exist α\alpha-attractors in brane inflation. The predictions for the scalar spectral index nsn_s and the tensor-to-scalar ratio rr are computed numerically, and approximate analytic formulas in the high energy limit have been given for the observable nsn_s and rr. The constraints on the model parameters are obtained by using Planck 2018 and BICEP2 observational data.

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@article{arxiv.1903.08435,
  title  = {$\alpha$-attractor from superconformal E-models in brane inflation},
  author = {Mudassar Sabir and Waqas Ahmed and Yungui Gong and Yizhou Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.08435},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures

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