Can broken rotational invariance be reconciled with inflation?

M. Peloso

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Abstract

Motivated by claims of broken rotational invariance in the WMAP data, a number of models have appeared in the literature realizing this effect through vector field(s) with a nonvanishing spatial vacuum expectation value. We discuss why many such models have ghost instabilities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)181-186
Number of pages6
JournalTheoretical and Mathematical Physics
Volume170
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2012

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the US Department of Energy (Grant No. DE-FG02-94ER-40823).

Keywords

  • broken rotational invariance
  • ghost instability

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