Wednesday, July 17, 2013

1307.4343 (Diederik Roest et al.)

Kahler potentials for Planck inflation    [PDF]

Diederik Roest, Marco Scalisi, Ivonne Zavala
We assess which Kahler potentials in supergravity lead to viable single-field inflationary models that are consistent with Planck. We highlight the role of symmetries, such as shift, Heisenberg and supersymmetry, in these constructions. Also the connections to string theory are pointed out. Finally, we discuss a supergravity model for arbitrary inflationary potentials that is suitable for open string inflation and generalize it to the case of closed string inflation. Our model includes the recently discussed supergravity reformulation of the Starobinsky model of inflation as well as an interesting alternative with comparable predictions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4343

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