Abstract
We discuss the motivations for reconsidering cosmological inflation in supersymmetric theories as contrasted with conventional GUTs. Radiative corrections to the effective potential can be made arbitrarily small in supersymmetric GUTs, removing some of the obstacles to inflation. We analyze general renormalizable potentials at the tree level and show that the required fine-tuning of parameters becomes less acute if inflation takes place before the grand unified phase transition, a hypothesis we term primordial inflation. We show how the grand unified monopole problem can be solved in supersymmetric GUTs embodying primordial inflation.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 524-548 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Nuclear Physics, Section B |
Volume | 221 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 11 1983 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank Nicky Henderson for her rapid and efficient help with this paper. This work was supported in part by K.A.O.'s NATO/NSF postdoctoral fellowship.