English

Inflation beyond T-models and primordial B-modes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-10-03 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We describe extended theories which shares the gauge transformation symmetry of the T-models, and takes the T-models as well as Starobinsky model as special cases. We derive a general relation between the two slow-roll parameters, and find that a large class of models can be embedded. Such models include more general Starobinsky-like inflation as well as the chaotic inflation with a large tensor-to-scalar ratio consistent with the BICEP2 result.

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@article{arxiv.1404.2560,
  title  = {Inflation beyond T-models and primordial B-modes},
  author = {Yi-Fu Cai and Jinn-Ouk Gong and Shi Pi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.2560},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

9 pages, 2 figures, published version

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