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Chaotic inflation with four-form couplings

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-02-26 v2

Abstract

We consider chaotic inflation models with a pseudo-scalar field containing the general couplings to the four-form flux. The four-form mixing with the pseudo-scalar field induces a quadratic potential for inflaton while the coexisting four-form mixing with graviton generates a non-minimal gravity coupling for inflaton. The shift symmetry is respected by the derived inflaton couplings and it is broken spontaneously only by the fixed four-form flux. We discuss the success of inflationary predictions and robustness against higher order terms. Finally, the built-in reheating mechanism is also addressed.

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@article{arxiv.1908.05475,
  title  = {Chaotic inflation with four-form couplings},
  author = {Hyun Min Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05475},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, two figures, revtex4 style, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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