nLab inflationary cosmology in supergravity -- references

Inflationary cosmology in Supergravity

On models of cosmic inflation in D=4 supergravity and the $\alpha$-attractor mechanism & the $\eta$-problem resolution:

(See also at Starobinsky model of cosmic inflation the references on its embedding into supergravity).

• Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, Keith A. Olive, Mark Srednicki, K. Tamvakis: Primordial inflation in simple supergravity, Phys. Lett. B 123 (1983) 41–44 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)90954-1]

• R. Holman, Pierre Ramond, G. G. Ross: Supersymmetric inflationary cosmology, Physics Letters B 137 (1984) 343 [doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)91729-5]

• S. James Gates Jr., Sergei V. Ketov: Superstring-inspired supergravity as the universal source of inflation and quintessence, Physics Letters B 674 (2009) 59–63 [doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.03.005, arXiv:0901.2467]

• Masahide Yamaguchi: Supergravity based inflation models: a review, Class. Quantum Grav. 28 (2011) 103001 [doi:10.1088/0264-9381/28/10/103001, arXiv:1101.2488]

• Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Massimo Porrati: Minimal Supergravity Models of Inflation, Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 085038 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.88.085038, arXiv:1307.7696]

• Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Diederik Roest: Superconformal Inflationary $\alpha$-Attractors, J. High Energ. Phys. 2013 198 (2013) [doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2013)198, arXiv:1311.0472]

• Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Diederik Roest: Large Field Inflation and Double $\alpha$-Attractors, J. High Energ. Phys. 2014 52 (2014) [doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2014)052, arXiv:1405.3646]

• Sergei V. Ketov, Takahiro Terada: Inflation in Supergravity with a Single Chiral Superfield, Physics Letters B 736 (2014) 272–277 [doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.07.036, arXiv:1406.0252]

• Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde: Cosmology with Nilpotent Superfields, J. High Energ. Phys. 2014 143 (2014) [doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2014)143, arXiv:1408.4096]

• Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, Marco Scalisi: Inflation, de Sitter Landscape and Super-Higgs effect, J. High Energ. Phys. 2015 111 (2015) [doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2015)111, arXiv:1411.5671]

• John Joseph M. Carrasco, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde: Cosmological Attractors and Initial Conditions for Inflation, Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 063519 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.063519, arXiv:1506.00936]

• Takahiro Terada: Inflation in Supergravity with a Single Superfield, Phd thesis, Tokyo (2015) [arXiv:1508.05335]

• Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh, Jesse Thaler: Cosmology with orthogonal nilpotent superfields, Phys. Rev. D 93 043516 (2016) [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.043516, arXiv:1512.00545]

• Sergio Ferrara, Renata Kallosh: Seven-Disk Manifold, $\alpha$-attractors and $B$-modes, Phys. Rev. D 94 (2016) 126015 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.126015, arXiv:1610.04163]

  (via 11D supergravity/M-theory on $G_2$-manifolds)

• Llibert Aresté Saló, David Benisty, Eduardo I. Guendelman, Jaume de Haro: $\alpha$-attractors in Quintessential Inflation motivated by Supergravity, Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) 123535 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.123535, arXiv:2103.07892]

• Sergei Ketov: Inflationary Cosmology from Supergravity, in Handbook of Quantum Gravity (2023) [doi:10.1007/978-981-19-3079-9_51-1, pdf]

• Ignatios Antoniadis, Emilian Dudas, Fotis Farakos, Augusto Sagnotti: Non-Linear Supergravity and Inflationary Cosmology [arXiv:2409.14943]

• Michele Cicoli, Christopher Hughes, Ahmed Rakin Kamal, Francesco Marino, Fernando Quevedo, Mario Ramos-Hamud, Gonzalo Villa: Back to the origins of brane-antibrane inflation, Eur. Phys. J. C 85 315 (2025) [doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-13982-9, arXiv:2410.00097]

• Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde: Attractors in Cosmology, section 3 of: Attractors in Supergravity, chapter 22 in: Half a Century of Supergravity Part II – Structure and Properties of Sugra (2026) 188–199 [doi:10.1017/9781009575874.025, arXiv:2503.13682]

• Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde: Streamlined Supergravity, J. High Energ. Phys. 2026 176 (2026) [doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2026)176, arXiv:2511.15815]

• Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde: Singular $\alpha$-attractors, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2026 (2026) [doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2026/04/075, arXiv:2512.02969]

• Gonzalo Villa: Remarks on brane-antibrane inflation, PoS 474 (2025) [doi:10.22323/1.474.0006, arXiv:2501.09074]

• Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde: Unification of polynomial and exponential cosmological attractors [arXiv:2607.07684]

Discussion in D=6 supergravity with 3-branes:

• Y. Aghababaie, Cliff P. Burgess, S. L. Parameswaran, Fernando Quevedo: Towards a Naturally Small Cosmological Constant from Branes in 6D Supergravity, Nucl. Phys. B 680 (2004) 389-414 [doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.12.015, arXiv:hep-th/0304256]