Anisotropic power-law inflation for a conformal-violating Maxwell model

Abstract

A set of power-law solutions of a conformal-violating Maxwell model with a non-standard scalar-vector coupling will be shown in this paper. In particular, we are interested in a coupling term of the form X(2n)F(mu v)F(mu v )with X denoting the kinetic term of the scalar field. Stability analysis indicates that the new set of anisotropic power-law solutions is unstable during the inflationary phase. The result is consistent with the cosmic no-hair conjecture. We show, however, that a set of stable slowly expanding solutions does exist for a small range of parameters lambda and n. Hence a small anisotropy can survive during the slowly expanding phase.