Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2012-03-18
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor typos corrected (conclusions unchanged)
Scientific paper
Based on random matrix theory, we compute the likelihood of saddles and minima in a class of random potentials that are softly bounded from above and below, as required for the validity of low energy effective theories. Imposing this bound leads to a random mass matrix with non-zero mean of its entries. If the dimensionality of field-space is large, inflation is rare, taking place near a saddle point (if at all), since saddles are more likely than minima or maxima for common values of the potential. Due to the boundedness of the potential, the latter become more ubiquitous for rare low/large values respectively. Based on the observation of a positive cosmological constant, we conclude that the dimensionality of field-space after (and most likely during) inflation has to be low if no anthropic arguments are invoked, since the alternative, encountering a metastable deSitter vacuum by chance, is extremely unlikely.
Battefeld Diana
Battefeld Thorsten
Schulz Sebastian
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