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Modular thermal inflation without slow-roll approximation
We study an inflationary scenario where thermal inflation is followed by
fast-roll inflation. This is a rather generic possibility based on the
effective potentials of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the context of
particle physics models. We show that a large enough expansion could be
achieved to solve cosmological problems. However, the power spectrum of
primordial density perturbations from the quantum fluctuations in the inflaton
field is not scale invariant and thus inconsistent with observations. Using the
curvaton mechanism instead, we can obtain a nearly scale invariant spectrum,
provided that the inflationary energy scale is sufficiently low to have long
enough fast-roll inflation to dilute the perturbations produced by the inflaton
fluctuations.Comment: (v1) 13 pages, 1 table, no figure; (v2) 14 pages, 1 table, no figure,
References added; (v3) A new subsection (3.2.3) added, one reference added,
to appear in Physics Letters
Towards general patterns of features in multi-field inflation
We investigate the consequences of general curved trajectories in multi-field
inflation. After setting up a completely general formalism using the mass
basis, which naturally accommodates the notion of light and heavy modes, we
study in detail the simple case of two successive turns in two-field system. We
find the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation receives corrections that
exhibit oscillatory features sinusoidal in the logarithm of the comoving
wavenumber without slow-roll suppression. We show that this is because of the
resonance of the heavy modes inside and outside the mass horizon.Comment: (v1) 16 pages, 2 figures; (v2) 17 pages, minor updates, to appear in
Journal of High Energy Physic
A new parameter in attractor single-field inflation
We revisit the notion of slow-roll in the context of general single-field
inflation. As a generalization of slow-roll dynamics, we consider an inflaton
in an attractor phase where the time derivative of is determined
by a function of , . In other words, we consider
the case when the number of -folds counted backward in time from the end
of inflation is solely a function of , . In this case, it is
found that we need a new independent parameter to properly describe the
dynamics of the inflaton field in general, in addition to the standard
parameters conventionally denoted by , , and . Two
illustrative examples are presented to discuss the non-slow-roll dynamics of
the inflaton field consistent with observations.Comment: (v1) 11 pages; (v2) 12 pages, discussions improved including the
running, to appear in Physics Letters
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