Flattening the inflaton potential beyond minimal gravity
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-01-24 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
We review the status of the Starobinsky-like models for inflation beyond minimal gravity and discuss the unitarity problem due to the presence of a large non-minimal gravity coupling. We show that the induced gravity models allow for a self-consistent description of inflation and discuss the implications of the inflaton couplings to the Higgs field in the Standard Model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.05880,
title = {Flattening the inflaton potential beyond minimal gravity},
author = {Hyun Min Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05880},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
5 pages, Prepared for the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Gravitation, 3-7 July 2017