Generalised conditions for rapid-turn inflation

Raul Wolters, Oksana Iarygina, Ana Achucarro

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Abstract

Rapid-turn slow-roll inflationary trajectories have been shown to be an attractor in two-field models, provided the turn rate is near constant and larger than the slow-roll parameters. These trajectories can produce primordial spectra consistent with current observations on CMB scales. We present the generalized consistency condition for sustained rapid-turn inflationary trajectory with two fields, arbitrary field-space metric and potential valid for any value of the turn rate. This has to be supplemented by a second condition to ensure slow roll evolution. Both conditions together constitute a tool to identify inflationary trajectories with arbitrary values of the turning rate without having to solve the equations of motion. We present a Python package for the numerical identification of regions in field-space and parameter space that allow for rapid-turn trajectories.
Original languageEnglish
Article number079
Pages (from-to)1-19
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume2024
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2024

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Keywords

  • Inflation
  • Physics of the early universe

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