1997/04/23 by William H. Kinney, W Kinney, Antonio Riotto · 32 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmic background radiation #Cosmic microwave background #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gauge (firearms) #Inflation (cosmology) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Spectrum (functional analysis) #Supersymmetry #Upper and lower bounds #astro-ph #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0927-6505(98)00057-7
published in Astroparticle Physics 10(4), 387-395 (Elsevier BV) · 17 pages, RevTeX, 1 figure in epsf
arxiv created 1997/04/23 · openalex publication_date 1999/05/01 · arxiv updated 2011/05/23 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We propose a new class of inflationary models in which the scalar field potential governing inflation is generated by the same non-perturbative gauge dynamics that may lead to supersymmetry breaking. Such models satisfy constraints from cosmic microwave background measurements for natural values of the fundamental parameters in the theory. In addition, they have two particularly interesting characteristics: a ``blue'' spectrum of scalar perturbations, and an upper bound on the total amount of inflation possible.