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固体暴胀中的预期各向异性

The expected anisotropy in solid inflation

Nicola Bartolo, Marco Peloso, Angelo Ricciardone, Caner Unal

摘要:

固体暴胀是暴胀的有效场论,其中各向同性和均匀性是通过各向异性源(三个分别打破各向同性的标量场)的特定组合来实现的。这导致了在暴胀的标准模型中找不到的特定观测特征:压缩双谱的非平凡角度依赖性,以及可能长时间的各向异性暴胀(为了驱动暴胀,“固体”必须对任何变形都非常不敏感,因此背景各向异性被非常缓慢地消除)。在本文中,我们计算该模型的曲率扰动的功率谱中的统计各向异性的预期水平。为了做到这一点,我们占的经典背景值的三个标量场产生的大(超视界)尺度膨胀期间通过随机游走和,作为扰动模式离开视界。即使从完全各向同性的经典初始条件出发,这种各向异性也是可避免的。各向异性的预期水平与膨胀的持续时间和压缩双谱的振幅有关。如果这个振幅接近其当前的观测极限(以便在不久的将来可以观察到该模型最有趣的预测之一),我们发现,如果通货膨胀持续$\gtrsim 20-30$ e倍以上的最后$50-60$ efolds所需generare CMB模式的统计各向异性$\gtrsim 3\%$的功率谱水平是可以预期的。我们还评论并指出各种相似之处之间的固体通货膨胀和模型的通货膨胀的一个合适的耦合的暴胀的矢量动力学项$F^{2}$给出冻结和规模不变的超视界尺度上的矢量扰动。

英文摘要:

Solid inflation is an effective field theory of inflation in which isotropy and homogeneity are accomplished via a specific combination of anisotropic sources (three scalar fields that individually break isotropy). This results in specific observational signatures that are not found in standard models of inflation: a non-trivial angular dependence for the squeezed bispectrum, and a possibly long period of anisotropic inflation (to drive inflation, the "solid" must be very insensitive to any deformation, and thus background anisotropies are very slowly erased). In this paper we compute the expected level of statistical anisotropy in the power spectrum of the curvature perturbations of this model. To do so, we account for the classical background values of the three scalar fields that are generated on large (superhorizon) scales during inflation via a random walk sum, as the perturbation modes leave the horizon. Such an anisotropy is unavoidably generated, even starting from perfectly isotropic classical initial conditions. The expected level of anisotropy is related to the duration of inflation and to the amplitude of the squeezed bispectrum. If this amplitude is close to its current observational limit (so that one of the most interesting predictions of the model can be observed in the near future), we find that a level of statistical anisotropy $\gtrsim 3\%$ in the power spectrum is to be expected, if inflation lasted $\gtrsim 20-30$ e-folds more than the final $50-60$ efolds required to generare the CMB modes. We also comment and point out various similarities between solid inflation and models of inflation where a suitable coupling of the inflaton to a vector kinetic term $F^{2}$ gives frozen and scale invariant vector perturbations on superhorizon scales.

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