Confronting the magnetically-induced holographic composite inflation with observation

TL;DR

This paper investigates a holographic inflation model inspired by AdS/QCD, demonstrating its compatibility with observational data and analyzing its gravitational wave predictions and scalar field displacement.

Contribution

It provides a detailed, time-dependent analysis of a magnetically-induced holographic inflation model, showing its consistency with Planck 2018 constraints and exploring its gravitational wave signatures.

Findings

Model predicts tensor-to-scalar ratio r ≈ 0.01

Scalar field displacement remains below Planck mass

Inflationary predictions align with Planck 2018 constraints

Abstract

We study the observational predictions of the phenomenological anti-de Sitter (AdS)/QCD inspired model, in which the inflaton field emerges in a four-dimensional strongly coupled gauge theory, in which the chiral symmetry breaking occurs through the formation of the quark condensate. Based on a top-down approach of AdS/QCD, using a D7-brane in the background of $N_c$ D3-branes, it has already been shown that chiral symmetry breaking in a magnetic field through the generation of the Higgs vacuum expectation value could be a second-order phase transition, although it was doubted that this scenario could lead to enough inflation. Using an iterative method, we consistently solve for the time-dependent parameters, including the embedding function of the D7-brane and the Hubble parameter of the expanding background. We show that with $N_c\sim 10^7$ and $g_{\rm{}_{UV}}\sim {\rm few}\times 0.1$, the predictions of the inflationary model are consistent with the most stringent constraints placed on the inflationary models by Planck 2018. Although the model is capable of producing a large amount of gravitational waves, $r\simeq 0.01$, the displacement of the canonical mass dimension-1 scalar field remains below the Planck mass, in violation of the Lyth bound.