On the constant roll complex scalar field inflationary models

TL;DR

This paper explores constant roll inflationary models using complex scalar fields, revealing new potentials and stability properties, and extends the analysis to multifield scenarios with non-canonical kinetic terms, showing they behave effectively as single-field models.

Contribution

It introduces a novel complex scalar field approach to constant roll inflation, providing new classes of potentials and analyzing stability, while also extending to multifield models with non-canonical kinetic terms.

Findings

Complex fields reach stable inflationary regimes faster than real fields.

Stable trajectories are robust under variations in the $\gamma$ function.

Multifield models effectively behave as single-field models in certain regimes.

Abstract

In this paper we wish to point out the possibility of using a complex scalar field in a constant roll inflationary model, as needed for observational viability. We extend the idea of real field inflaton with constant rate of roll to a complex field, showing the feasibility of solving Einstein Klein-Gordon equations constrained by an \emph{appropriate} form of constant roll definition. As compared to the well known (two-parametric class of) real field models, there is one more degree of flexibility in constant roll inflationary solutions which is represented by an arbitrary function of time, $\gamma(t)$. We work with an arbitrary but constant function $\gamma$ (where $\gamma=0$ refers to the corresponding real field model) and find new inflationary class of potentials. In this class of models, the behavior of real and complex field models are similar in some aspects, for example the solutions with large constant roll parameter are not stable and should be considered as early time transients. These field solutions relax at late time on a dual attractor trajectory. However, complex fields phase space trajectories reach this stable regime after real fields. We performed the stability analysis on $\gamma$ function space solutions and found that dynamically stable trajectories in phase space are stable under $\gamma$ variations. We extended this study by considering multifield models of constant roll inflation with non-canonical kinetic terms. By enlarging the size of field space, we showed that a multifield constant roll model is dynamically a single field effective theory. If field space is parametrized by $N$ non-canonical fields, there will be $N$ free parameters in the potential that can be attributed to the interaction between the fields.