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$F$-term Multi-Field Inflation in Supergravity without Stabiliser Superfields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-15 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Realising FF-term slow-roll inflation in supergravity is non-trivial due to the well-known η\eta-problem. The common strategy to solve the problem is to impose a shift symmetry on the K\"ahler potential, but this often leads to a negative potential in the large-field regime. To avoid negative potentials, an additional superfield called the stabiliser is usually added with a desired interaction. An alternative mechanism in supergravity, avoiding the use of a stabiliser superfield, was earlier proposed by two of us in the setup with a single chiral superfield having inflaton and goldstino amongst its field components. In this work, we extend that alternative mechanism to multi-superfield models of inflation, thereby providing a generic framework for embedding a wide class of single- and multi-field inflation models into supergravity. We illustrate our approach by several concrete examples of multi-field inflation and clarify the conditions required to avoid tachyonic instabilities during multi-field evolution. Our proposal significantly broadens the theoretical landscape of FF-term inflation models in supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.2508.20194,
  title  = {$F$-term Multi-Field Inflation in Supergravity without Stabiliser Superfields},
  author = {Jinn-Ouk Gong and Sergei V. Ketov and Takahiro Terada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.20194},
  year   = {2025}
}

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25 pages, 2 figures; published version

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