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具有随机势的多场暴胀

Multi-field Inflation with a Random Potential

S. -H. Henry Tye, Jiajun Xu, Yang Zhang

摘要:

受宇宙景观中暴胀可能性的启发,我们研究了具有随机势的多场暴胀中的密度扰动。随机势使暴胀子在D维场空间中经历一个漂移的布朗运动。为了量化这种影响,我们采用随机方法来评估原始扰动的两点和三点函数。我们发现,在弱随机的情况下,所得到的功率谱类似于单场慢滚的情况下,高达2%以上的红色倾斜。强随机的情况下,导致丰富的现象,如原始波动的功率谱上的所有角尺度。这样的特征可能已经隐藏在观测到的CMB TT(以及TE和EE)功率谱的误差条中,并且可以在未来的更多数据中检测或伪造。张量功率谱本身是免费的波动和张量标量比增强。此外,功率谱指数的大的负运行是可能的。非高斯性一般被超视界尺度上绝热扰动的增长所抑制,但也可能被共振效应所增强,或者在(p)再加热开始时由熵扰动引起。在本文中开发的形式主义可以应用到广泛的一类多场通货膨胀模型,包括,例如,N-通货膨胀的情况。

英文摘要:

Motivated by the possibility of inflation in the cosmic landscape, which may be approximated by a complicated potential, we study the density perturbations in multi-field inflation with a random potential. The random potential causes the inflaton to undergo a Brownian motion with a drift in the D-dimensional field space. To quantify such an effect, we employ a stochastic approach to evaluate the two-point and three-point functions of primordial perturbations. We find that in the weakly random scenario the resulting power spectrum resembles that of the single field slow-roll case, with up to 2% more red tilt. The strongly random scenario, leads to rich phenomenologies, such as primordial fluctuations in the power spectrum on all angular scales. Such features may already be hiding in the error bars of observed CMB TT (as well as TE and EE) power spectrum and can be detected or falsified with more data coming in the future. The tensor power spectrum itself is free of fluctuations and the tensor to scalar ratio is enhanced. In addition a large negative running of the power spectral index is possible. Non-Gaussianity is generically suppressed by the growth of adiabatic perturbations on super-horizon scales, but can possibly be enhanced by resonant effects or arise from the entropic perturbations during the onset of (p)reheating. The formalism developed in this paper can be applied to a wide class of multi-field inflation models including, e.g. the N-flation scenario.

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