Is there supercurvature mode of massive vector field in open inflation?

Journal Article · Sat Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2014 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/03/031· OSTI ID:22370620

Yamauchi, Daisuke ^[1]; Fujita, Tomohiro; Mukohyama, Shinji ^[2]

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1. Research Center for the Early Universe, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
2. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), TODIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568 (Japan)

We investigate the Euclidean vacuum mode functions of a massive vector field in a spatially open chart of de Sitter spacetime. In the one-bubble open inflationary scenario that naturally predicts a negative spatial curvature after a quantum tunneling, it is known that a light scalar field has the so-called supercurvature mode, i.e. an additional discrete mode which describes fluctuations over scales larger than the spatial curvature scale. If such supercurvature modes exist for a vector field with a sufficiently light mass, then they would decay slower and easily survive the inflationary era. However, the existence of supercurvature mode strongly depends on details of the system. To clarify whether a massive vector field has supercurvature modes, we consider a U(1) gauge field with gauge and conformal invariances spontaneously broken through the Higgs mechanism, and present explicit expressions for the Euclidean vacuum mode functions. We find that, for any values of the vector field mass, there is no supercurvature mode. In the massless limit, the absence of supercurvature modes in the scalar sector stems from the gauge symmetry.

• OSTI ID: 22370620
• Journal Information: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 03 Vol. 2014; ISSN 1475-7516
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BUBBLES
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE
COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION
EUCLIDEAN SPACE
FLUCTUATIONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
HIGGS MODEL
SCALAR FIELDS
TUNNEL EFFECT
VECTOR FIELDS