Cosmological attractors from α -scale supergravity

The Planck value of the spectral index can be interpreted as ns=1-2/N in terms of the number of e-foldings N. An appealing explanation for this phenomenological observation is provided by α-attractors: the inflationary predictions of these supergravity models are fully determined by the curvature of the Kähler manifold. We provide a novel formulation of α-attractors which only involves a single chiral superfield. Our construction involves a natural deformation of no-scale models and employs these to construct a de Sitter plateau with an exponential falloff. Finally, we show how analogous structures with a flat Kähler geometry arise as a singular limit of such α-scale models.