arXiv:1812.02192·v2·High Energy Physics — Theory
A General Classification of Starobinsky-like Inflationary Avatars of SU(2,1)/SU(2) x U(1) No-Scale Supergravity
John Ellis🇬🇧 · Dimitri V. Nanopoulos🇺🇸 · Keith A. Olive🇺🇸 · Sarunas Verner🇺🇸
Abstract
Measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) favour models of inflation with a small tensor-to-scalar ratio r, as predicted by the Starobinsky R + R^2 model. It has been shown previously that various models based on no-scale supergravity with different forms of superpotential make predictions similar to those of the Starobinsky model. In this paper we present a unified and general treatment of Starobinsky avatars of no-scale supergravity, using the underlying non-compact SU(2,1)/SU(2) x U(1) symmetry to demonstrate equivalences between different models, exhibiting 6 specific equivalence classes.
Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures; details on stabilization added, version published in JHEP