A Field Range Bound for General Single-Field Inflation

Details A Field Range Bound for General Single-Field Inflation A Field Range Bound for General Single-Field Inflation

2011-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3040v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

16 pages

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We explore the consequences of a detection of primordial tensor fluctuations for general single-field models of inflation. Using the effective theory of inflation, we propose a generalization of the Lyth bound. Our bound applies to all single-field models with two-derivative kinetic terms for the scalar fluctuations and is always stronger than the corresponding bound for slow-roll models. This shows that non-trivial dynamics can't evade the Lyth bound. We also present a weaker, but completely universal bound that holds whenever the Null Energy Condition (NEC) is satisfied at horizon crossing.

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