Correlation-consistency cartography of the double inflation landscape
Abstract
We show explicitly some exciting general features of double-inflation: (i) they can often lead to strongly correlated adiabatic and entropy (isocurvature) power spectra. (ii) The two-field slow-roll consistency relations can be violated when the correlation is large at Hubble crossing. (iii) The resulting spectra of adiabatic and entropy perturbations can be strongly scale-dependent and tilted toward either the red or blue. These effects are typically due to a light or time-dependent entropy mass and a non-negligible angular velocity in field space during inflation. They are illustrated via a wide multi-parameter numerical search for correlations in two concrete models. The correlation is found to be particularly strong in a supersymmetric scenario due to rapid growth of entropy perturbations in the tachyonic region separating the two inflationary stages. Our analysis suggests that realistic double-inflation models will provide a rich and fruitful arena for the application of future cosmic data sets and new approximation schemes which go beyond slow-roll.Keywords
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