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Extended Open Inflation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a new type of one-field models for open inflation utilizing a nonminimally coupled scalar field with polynomial potentials in which the Coleman-de Luccia instanton does exist and slow-roll inflation after the bubble nucleation is realized.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9907402,
  title  = {Extended Open Inflation},
  author = {Takeshi Chiba and Masahide Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9907402},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, minor changes, Phys. Rev. D, in press