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Constrained inflaton due to a complex scalar

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-12-02 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We reexamine inflation due to a constrained inflaton in the model of a complex scalar. Inflaton evolves along a spiral-like valley of special scalar potential in the scalar field space just like single field inflation. Sub-Planckian inflaton can induce sufficient ee-foldings because of a long slow-roll path. In a special limit, the scalar spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio has equivalent expressions to the inflation with monomial potential φn\varphi^n. The favorable values for them could be obtained by varying parameters in the potential. This model could be embedded in a certain radiative neutrino mass model.

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@article{arxiv.1505.05955,
  title  = {Constrained inflaton due to a complex scalar},
  author = {Romy H. S. Budhi and Shoichi Kashiwase and Daijiro Suematsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.05955},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures

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