SU(N, 1) inflation

John Ellis, K. Enqvist, D. V. Nanopoulos, K. A. Olive, M. Srednicki

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Abstract

We present a simple model for primordial inflation in the context of SU(N, 1) no-scale n=1 supergravity. Because the model at zero temperature very closely resembles global supersymmetry, minima with negative cosmological constants do not exist, and it is easy to have a long inflationary epoch while keeping density perturbations of the right magnitude and satisfying other cosmological constraints. We pay specific attention to satisfying the thermal constraint for inflation, i.e. the existence of a high temperature minimum at the origin.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)175-180
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume152
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 7 1985

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Funding Information:
One of us (K.E.) thanksg ratefullyth e Academyo f Finland for financiasl upportK. .A.O. would like to thank C. Hill, E.W. Kolb, and D. Seckelf or valuable discussionsM.. S. is supporteidn part by NSF Grant PHY83-13324.

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