Hillclimbing Higgs inflation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2018-07-06 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We propose a realization of cosmic inflation with the Higgs field when the Higgs potential has degenerate vacua by employing the recently proposed idea of hillclimbing inflation. The resultant inflationary predictions exhibit a sizable deviation from those of the ordinary Higgs inflation.
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@article{arxiv.1705.03696,
title = {Hillclimbing Higgs inflation},
author = {Ryusuke Jinno and Kunio Kaneta and Kin-ya Oda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.03696},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table (v1); published version, references and footnotes added (v2)