Chain inflation revisited

Details Chain inflation revisited Chain inflation revisited

2008-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/0804.2846v3

JCAP0810:012,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

25 pages and references, version for publication

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2008/10/012

This paper represents an in-depth treatment of the chain inflation scenario. We fully determine the evolution of the universe in the model, the necessary conditions in order to have a successful inflationary period, and the matching with the observational results regarding the cosmological perturbations. We study in great detail, and in general, the dynamics of the background, as well as the mechanism of generation of the perturbations. We also find an explicit formula for the spectrum of adiabatic perturbations. Our results prove that chain inflation is a viable model for solving the horizon, entropy and flatness problem of standard cosmology and for generating the right amount of adiabatic cosmological perturbations. The results are radically different from those found in previous works on the subject. Finally, we argue that there is a natural way to embed chain inflation into flux compactified string theory. We discuss the details of the implementation and how to fit observations.

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