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Flat direction dynamics in a non-topological soliton-dominated universe.

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>08/2004
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Issue number8
Volume2004
Pages (from-to)002
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

In running mass inflation and hybrid inflation models it is possible that the inflaton field will fragment into non-topological solitons, resulting in a highly inhomogeneous post-inflation era prior to reheating. In supersymmetric models with a conventional homogeneous post-inflation era, the dynamics of flat direction scalars are determined by cH2 corrections to the mass squared terms (where ), coming from F-terms in the early universe combined with Planck-scale suppressed interactions. Here we reconsider the mass squared corrections for a universe dominated by inflatonic non-topological solitons. We show that in this case the dynamics of a coherently oscillating flat direction scalar are typically the same as for the case where there is no significant mass squared correction, even in the vicinity of the non-topological solitons. Therefore the dynamics of flat direction scalars in a universe dominated by inflatonic non-topological solitons are equivalent to the case c = 0 of a homogeneous universe.