Motivated by claims of broken rotational invariance in the WMAP data, a number of models have appeared in the literature realizing this effect through vector field(s) with a nonvanishing spatial vacuum expectation value. We discuss why many such models have ghost instabilities.

Can broken rotational invariance be reconciled with inflation?

Peloso M.
2012

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Motivated by claims of broken rotational invariance in the WMAP data, a number of models have appeared in the literature realizing this effect through vector field(s) with a nonvanishing spatial vacuum expectation value. We discuss why many such models have ghost instabilities.
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