Linear inflation from quartic potential
Abstract
We show that if the inflaton has a non-minimal coupling to gravity and the Planck scale is dynamically generated, the results of Coleman-Weinberg inflation are confined in between two attractor solutions: quadratic inflation, which is ruled out by the recent measurements, and linear inflation which, instead, is in the experimental allowed region. The minimal scenario has only one free parameter -- the inflaton's non-minimal coupling to gravity -- that determines all physical parameters such as the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the reheating temperature of the Universe. Should the more precise future measurements of inflationary parameters point towards linear inflation, further interest in scale-invariant scenarios would be motivated.
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@article{arxiv.1509.05423,
title = {Linear inflation from quartic potential},
author = {Kristjan Kannike and Antonio Racioppi and Martti Raidal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05423},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
19 pages, 7 figures, revised version published on JHEP