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Anisotropic Inflation with General Potentials

2015/12/08 by Jiaming Shi, Shi, Jiaming, Xiaotian Huang +3
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1512.02316

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Abstract

Anomalies in recent observational data indicate that there might be some "anisotropic hair" generated in an inflation period. To obtain general information about the effects of this anisotropic hair to inflation models, we studied anisotropic inflation models that involve one vector and one scalar using several types of potentials. We determined the general relationship between the degree of anisotropy and the fraction of the vector and scalar fields, and concluded that the anisotropies behave independently of the potentials. We also generalized our study to the case of multi-directional anisotropies.

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