Inflation without gauge redundancy
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-04-29 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
In the context of gauge theories, observable quantities, if properly defined and computed, do not depend on the gauge-fixing procedure. In this paper, we develop a formalism that implements this (apparent) tautology in the case of inflation. As a simple application, we discuss Coleman-Weinberg "hilltop" inflation.
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@article{arxiv.2001.05480,
title = {Inflation without gauge redundancy},
author = {Alfredo Urbano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.05480},
year = {2020}
}