A new eigenvalue method is introduced to compute the PDF of stochastic e-folds in inflation, recovering a known flat-potential result and analyzing constant-drift cases in narrow and broad well limits.
Large-$\eta$ Constant-Roll Inflation Is Never An Attractor
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Slow roll solutions to inflationary potentials have been widely believed to be the only universal attractor. Over the last few years there has been growing interest in a new class of inflationary models known as Constant-Roll Inflation. Constant roll solutions are a generalization of "ultra-slow roll" dynamics, where the first slow roll parameter is small, but the second slow roll parameter $\eta$ is larger than unity. In Ultra-slow Roll Inflation, the large-$\eta$ solution is a dynamical transient, relaxing exponentially to the attractor de Sitter solution. In the constant roll generalization, recent papers have concluded that Constant-Roll Inflation represents a new class of non-slow roll attractor solutions. In this paper we show that these attractor solutions are actually the usual slow roll attractor, disguised by a parameter duality, and that the large-$\eta$ solutions, as in the case of ultra-slow roll, represent a dynamical transient.
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Eigenvalue formulation of Stochastic Inflation and application to large perturbation generating inflationary features
A new eigenvalue method is introduced to compute the PDF of stochastic e-folds in inflation, recovering a known flat-potential result and analyzing constant-drift cases in narrow and broad well limits.