Warm inflation in presence of magnetic fields

Piccinelli, Gabriella; Sánchez, Alejandro; Ayala, Alejandro; Mizher, Ana Júlia

doi:10.1063/1.4817059

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“…Work on warm inflation has been done in understanding the underlying quantum field theory dynamics [3,12,[14][15][16][17][18]26,[165][166][167], examining density perturbations [58,59,[168][169][170][171][172][173][174][175], studying non-gaussianity [176][177][178][179][180][181][182][183][184], and testing models to data [95,[185][186][187][188][189][190][191][192][193][194][195][196][197][198][199][200]. There is work showing how warm inflation can realize cosmic magnetic fields [201]…”

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The Warm Inflation Story

Berera

2023

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Warm inflation has normalized two ideas in cosmology, that in the early universe the initial primordial density perturbations generally could be of classical rather than quantum origin and that during inflation, particle production from interactions amongst quantum field, and its backreaction effects, can occur concurrent with inflationary expansion. When we first introduced these ideas, both were met with resistance, but today they are widely accepted as possibilities with many models and applications based on them, which is an indication of the widespread influence of warm inflation. Open quantum field theory, which has been utilized in studies of warm inflation, is by now a relevant subject in cosmology, in part due to this early work. In this review I first discuss the basic warm inflation dynamics. I then outline how to compute warm inflation dynamics from first-principles quantum field theory (QFT) and in particular how a dissipative term arises. Warm inflation models can have an inflaton mass bigger than the Hubble scale and the inflaton field excursion can remain sub-Planckian, thus overcoming the most prohibitive problems of inflation model building. I discuss the early period of my work in developing warm inflation that helped me arrive at these important features of its dynamics. Inflationary cosmology today is immersed in hypothetical models, which by now are acting as a diversion from reaching any endgame in this field. I discuss better ways to approach model selection and give necessary requirements for a well constrained and predictive inflation model. A few warm inflation models are pointed out that could be developed to this extent. I discuss how, at this stage, more progress would be made in this subject by taking a broader view on the possible early universe solutions that include not just inflation but the diverse range of options.

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The Warm Inflation Story

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2023

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Warm inflation in presence of magnetic fields

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