Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings. I. Covariant formalism and attractor behavior

This is the first of a three-part series of papers, in which we study the preheating phase for multifield models of inflation involving nonminimal couplings. In this paper, we study the single-field attractor behavior that these models exhibit during inflation and quantify its strength and parameter...

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Main Authors: DeCross, Matthew P., Kaiser, David I., Prabhu, Anirudh, Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, Sfakianakis, Evangelos I.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114423
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5054-6744