Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-09-23
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
14 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
We show the absence of the usual parametrically large overshoot problem of small-field inflation if initiated by a Coleman-De Luccia (CDL) tunneling transition from an earlier vacuum in the limit of small inflationary scale compared to the tunneling scale. For low-power monomial exit potentials $V(\phi)\sim\phi^n, n<4$, we derive an expression for the amount of overshoot. This is bounded from above by the width of the steep barrier traversed after emerging from tunneling and before reaching a slow-roll region of the potential. For $n\geq 4$ we show that overshooting is entirely absent. We extend this result through binomials to a general potential written as a series expansion, and to the case of arbitrary finite initial speed of the inflaton. This places the phase space of initial conditions for small-field and large-field inflation on the same footing in a landscape of string theory vacua populated via CDL tunneling.
Dutta Koushik
Vaudrevange Pascal M.
Westphal Alexander
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