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Supergravity Contributions to Inflation in models with non-minimal coupling to gravity

Kumar Das
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Koushik Dutta
  • Fonction : Auteur

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This paper provides a systematic study of supergravity contributions relevant for inflationary model building in Jordan frame supergravity. In this framework, canonical kinetic terms in the Jordan frame result in the separation of the Jordan frame scalar potential into a tree-level term and a supergravity contribution which is potentially dangerous for sustaining inflation. We show that if the vacuum energy necessary for driving inflation originates dominantly from the F-term of an auxiliary field (i.e. not the inflaton), the supergravity corrections to the Jordan frame scalar potential are generically suppressed. Moreover, these supergravity contributions identically vanish if the superpotential vanishes along the inflationary trajectory. On the other hand, if the F-term associated with the inflaton dominates the vacuum energy, the supergravity contributions are generically comparable to the globally supersymmetric contributions. In addition, the non-minimal coupling to gravity inherent to Jordan frame supergravity significantly impacts the inflationary model depending on the size and sign of this coupling. We discuss the phenomenology of some representative inflationary models, and point out the relation to the recently much discussed cosmological `attractor' models.

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hal-01554843 , version 1 (03-07-2017)

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Kumar Das, Valerie Domcke, Koushik Dutta. Supergravity Contributions to Inflation in models with non-minimal coupling to gravity. JCAP, 2017, 03, pp.036. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/036⟩. ⟨hal-01554843⟩
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