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Solid inflation
DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2013/10/011.png)
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We develop a cosmological model where primordial inflation is driven by a 'solid', defined as a system of three derivatively coupled scalar fields obeying certain symmetries and spontaneously breaking a certain subgroup of these. The symmetry breaking pattern differs drastically from that of standard inflationary models: time translations are unbroken. This prevents our model from fitting into the standard effective field theory description of adiabatic perturbations, with crucial consequences for the dynamics of cosmological perturbations. Most notably, non-gaussianities in the curvature perturbations are unusually large, with f(NL) similar to 1/(is an element of c(s)(2)), and have a novel shape: peaked in the squeezed limit, with anisotropic dependence on how the limit is approached. Other unusual features include the absence of adiabatic fluctuation modes during inflation - which does not impair their presence and near scale-invariance after inflation - and a slightly blue tilt for the tensor modes.
Keyword:
inflation
physics of the early universe
quantum field theory on curved space
quantum cosmology
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