The Hubble slow roll expansion for multi field inflation

May, 2005
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 72 (2005) 103505
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We examine the dynamics of inflation driven by multiple, interacting scalar fields and derive a multi field version of the Hubble slow roll expansion. We show that the properties of this expansion naturally generalize those of the single field case. We present an analogous hierarchy of slow roll parameters, and derive the system of ``flow'' equations that describes their evolution, and show that when this system is truncated at finite order, it can always be solved exactly. Lastly, we express the scalar and tensor perturbation spectra in terms of the slow roll parameters.
  • 98.80.Cq
  • inflation
  • field theory: scalar
  • field theory: multiple
  • Hubble constant
  • power spectrum: perturbation
  • perturbation: scalar
  • perturbation: tensor
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