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Constant-Roll Inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-04-25 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Constant-roll inflation is a distinctive class of phenomenological inflationary models in which the inflaton's rate of roll remains constant. It provides an exact solution that is compatible with the latest observational constraints and offers a natural framework for enhancing the curvature power spectrum, which is relevant to the formation of primordial black holes. In this paper, I review constant-roll inflation in memory of Alexei Starobinsky.

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@article{arxiv.2504.16757,
  title  = {Constant-Roll Inflation},
  author = {Hayato Motohashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16757},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

22 pages, 6 figures. Invited contribution to the volume "Open Issues in Gravitation and Cosmology - Original Contributions, Essays and Recollections in Honor of Alexei Starobinsky", to be published by Springer, edited by Andrei Barvinsky and Alexander Kamenshchik

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