A Meandering Inflaton Export

@article{citeulike:5904678, abstract = {If the cosmological inflationary scenario took place in the cosmic landscape in string theory, the inflaton, the scalar mode responsible for inflation, would have meandered in a complicated multi-dimensional potential. We show that this meandering property naturally leads to many e-folds of inflation, a necessary condition for a successful inflationary scenario. This behavior also leads to fluctuations in the primordial power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which may be detected in a near future cosmic variance limited experiment like PLANCK.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Tye, S. Henry H. and Xu, Jiajun}, citeulike-article-id = {5904678}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0849}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.0849}, day = {5}, eprint = {0910.0849}, keywords = {cosmology, inflation, strings}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2009-10-07 08:48:50}, priority = {2}, title = {A Meandering Inflaton}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0849}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5904678 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5904678 N2 - If the cosmological inflationary scenario took place in the cosmic landscape in string theory, the inflaton, the scalar mode responsible for inflation, would have meandered in a complicated multi-dimensional potential. We show that this meandering property naturally leads to many e-folds of inflation, a necessary condition for a successful inflationary scenario. This behavior also leads to fluctuations in the primordial power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which may be detected in a near future cosmic variance limited experiment like PLANCK. TI - A Meandering Inflaton KW - cosmology KW - inflation KW - strings AU - Tye, Henry AU - Xu, Jiajun PY - 2009/Oct/05/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0849 ER -