D-term inflation

被引:372
作者
Binetruy, P [1 ]
Dvali, G [1 ]
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[1] CERN,DIV THEORY,CH-1211 GENEVA,SWITZERLAND
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10.1016/S0370-2693(96)01083-0
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We show that inflation which is dominated by the D-term density avoids the 'slow-roll' problem of inflation in supergravity. Such an inflationary scenario can naturally emerge in theories with non-anomalous or anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry. In the latter case the scale of inflation is fixed by the Green-Schwarz mechanism of anomaly cancellation. The crucial point is that the (super)gravity-mediated curvature of all the scalar fields (and, in particular, of the inflaton), which in the standard F-dominated case is of the order of the Hubble parameter, is absent in the D-term inflation case. The curvature of moduli and of all other flat directions during such an inflation crucially depends on their gauge charges.
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页码:241 / 246
页数:6
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