title: Natural chaotic inflation in supergravity
abstract: We propose a chaotic inflation model in supergravity. In the model the Kahler potential has a Nambu-Goldstone-type shift symmetry of the inflaton chiral multiplet which ensures the flatness of the inflaton potential beyond the Planck scale. We show that chaotic inflation naturally takes place by introducing a small breaking term of the shift symmetry in the superpotential. This may open a new branch of model building for inflationary cosmology in the framework of supergravity.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for the Early Universe, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
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authors.lastname: Kawasaki
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authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
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authors.lastname: Yanagida