Watanabe Masa-Aki, Kanno Sugumi, Soda Jiro
Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
Phys Rev Lett. 2009 May 15;102(19):191302. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.191302. Epub 2009 May 14.
We study an inflationary scenario with a vector field coupled with an inflaton field and show that the inflationary Universe is endowed with anisotropy for a wide range of coupling functions. This anisotropic inflation is a tracking solution where the energy density of the vector field follows that of the inflaton field irrespective of initial conditions. We find a universal relation between the anisotropy and a slow-roll parameter of inflation. Our finding has observational implications and gives a counterexample to the cosmic no-hair conjecture.
我们研究了一个矢量场与暴胀场耦合的暴胀模型,并表明对于广泛的耦合函数,暴胀宇宙具有各向异性。这种各向异性暴胀是一种追踪解,其中矢量场的能量密度无论初始条件如何都跟随暴胀场的能量密度。我们发现了各向异性与暴胀的一个慢滚参数之间的普遍关系。我们的发现具有观测意义,并为宇宙无毛猜想提供了一个反例。