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Simple exercises to flatten your potential

Dong, Xi, Horn, Bart, Silverstein, Eva et al.

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We show how backreaction of the inflaton potential energy on heavy scalar fields can flatten the inflationary potential, as the heavy fields adjust to their most energetically favorable configuration.

This mechanism operates in previous UV-complete examples of axion monodromy inflation - flattening a would-be quadratic potential to one linear in the inflaton field - but occurs more generally, and we illustrate the effect with several examples.
Special choices of compactification minimizing backreaction may realize chaotic inflation with a quadratic potential, but we argue that a flatter potential such as power-law inflation $V(\phi) \propto \phi^p$ with $p<2$ is a more generic option at sufficiently large values of $\phi$.

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A. H. Guth, “The Inflationary Universe: A Possible Solution To The Horizon And Flatness Problems,” Phys. Rev. D 23
1982
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. D. Linde, “Chaotic Inflation,” Phys. Lett. B 129
1983
Earlier work this paper cites.
N. Kaloper and L. Sorbo, “A Natural Framework for Chaotic Inflation,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102
Original
1989
Earlier work this paper cites.
E. D. Stewart, “Mutated hybrid inflation,” Phys. Lett. B 345
1996
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. Berera, I. G. Moss and R. O. Ramos, “Warm Inflation and its Microphysical Basis,” Rept. Prog. Phys. 72
Original
1999
Earlier work this paper cites.
C. Armendariz-Picon, T. Damour, V. F. Mukhanov, “k - inflation,” Phys. Lett. B458
1999
Earlier work this paper cites.
I. R. Klebanov and M. J. Strassler, “Supergravity and a confining gauge theory: Duality cascades and chiSB-resolution of naked singularities,” JHEP 0008
2000
Earlier work this paper cites.
I. Dymnikova and M. Khlopov, “Self-consistent initial conditions in inflationary cosmology,” Grav. Cosmol. Suppl. 4
2001
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. G. Rubin, “Effect of massive fields on inflation,” JETP Lett. , 74,247 (2001) [hep-ph/0110132]
2001
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. Kachru, R. Kallosh, A. D. Linde, J. Maldacena, L. McAllister, and S. Trivedi , “Towards inflation in string theory,” JCAP 0310
2003
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. B. Giddings, S. Kachru and J. Polchinski, “Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications,” Phys. Rev. D 66
2003
Earlier work this paper cites.
R. Kallosh, A. D. Linde, “Landscape, the scale of SUSY breaking, and inflation,” JHEP 0412
2004
Earlier work this paper cites.

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E. Silverstein, D. Tong, “Scalar speed limits and cosmology: Acceleration from D-cceleration,” Phys. Rev. D70
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Cited alongside, same era.
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2006
Cited alongside, same era.
A. Saltman, E. Silverstein, “A New handle on de Sitter compactifications,” JHEP 0601
2006
Cited alongside, same era.
S. B. Giddings and A. Maharana, “Dynamics of warped compactifications and the shape of the warped landscape,” Phys. Rev. D 73
2006
Cited alongside, same era.
C. Cheung, P. Creminelli, A. L. Fitzpatrick, J. Kaplan and L. Senatore, “The Effective Field Theory of Inflation,” JHEP 0803
Original
2007
Cited alongside, same era.
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2007