Tuesday, February 7, 2012

1202.0896 (Antonio De Felice et al.)

Stability of the 3-form field during inflation    [PDF]

Antonio De Felice, Khamphee Karwan, Pitayuth Wongjun
We consider the minimally coupled 3-form field which has been considered as a
candidate to realize inflation. We have studied the conditions to avoid ghosts
and Laplacian instabilities and found that some classes of potentials, e.g. the
Mexican-hat one, will in general be unstable. We propose other classes of
potentials which are instead free from any instability, drive a long-enough
slow-roll regime followed by an oscillatory epoch, and as a consequence, can
provide successful inflation.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0896

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