Thursday, August 30, 2012

1207.1165 (Masahiro Kawasaki et al.)

Stochastic Approach to Flat Direction during Inflation    [PDF]

Masahiro Kawasaki, Tomohiro Takesako
We revisit the time evolution of a flat and non-flat direction system during inflation. In order to take into account quantum noises in the analysis, we base on stochastic formalism and solve coupled Langevin equations numerically. We focus on a class of models in which tree-level Hubble-induced mass is not generated. Although the non-flat directions can block the growth of the flat direction's variance in principle, the blocking effects are suppressed by the effective masses of the non-flat directions. We find that the fate of the flat direction during inflation is determined by one-loop radiative corrections and non-renormalizable terms as usually considered, if we remove the zero-point fluctuation from the noise terms.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1165

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