Cosmological attractors from alpha-scale supergravity

The Planck value of the spectral index can be interpreted as n(s) = 1 - 2/N in terms of the number of e-foldings N. An appealing explanation for this phenomenological observation is provided by alpha-attractors: the inflationary predictions of these supergravity models are fully determined by the curvature of the Kahler manifold. We provide a novel formulation of alpha-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 Kahler geometry arise as a singular limit of such alpha-scale models.