Universality in Multifield Inflation from String Theory

We develop a numerical statistical method to study linear cosmological fluctuations in inflationary scenarios with multiple fields, and apply it to an ensemble of six-field inflection point models in string theory. The latter are concrete microphysical realizations of quasi-single-field inflation, in which scalar masses are of order the Hubble parameter and an adiabatic limit is reached before the end of inflation. We find that slow-roll violations, bending trajectories and 'many-field' effects are commonplace in realizations yielding more than 60 e-folds of inflation, although models in which these effects are substantial are in tension with observational constraints on the tilt of the scalar power spectrum.

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