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Flattening the Inflaton's Potential with Quantum Corrections II

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-24 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In a previous paper I showed that a classical scalar potential with V/V1V''/V \sim 1 can be sufficiently flattened by quantum corrections to give rise to slow-roll inflation. In this paper I give a hybrid inflation implementation of that idea which can naturally produce a spectral index in the observationally viable range even for V1/41010V^{1/4} \sim 10^{10} to 101110^{11} GeV. Although any observationally viable spectral index can be obtained, the model does predict a distinctive spectral shape.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9703232,
  title  = {Flattening the Inflaton's Potential with Quantum Corrections II},
  author = {Ewan D. Stewart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9703232},
  year   = {2016}
}

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14 pages, latex, 3 epsf figures