English

Non-minimally assisted chaotic inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-06-08 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Conventional wisdom says that a chaotic inflation model with a power-law potential is ruled out by the recent Planck-BICEP/Keck results. We find, however, that the model can be assisted by a non-minimally coupled scalar field and still provides a successful inflation. Considering a power-law chaotic inflation model of the type VφnV\sim \varphi^n with n={2,4/3,1,2/3,1/3}n=\{2, 4/3, 1, 2/3, 1/3\}, we show that n=1/3n=1/3 (n={2/3,1/3}n=\{2/3, 1/3\}) may be revived with the help of the quadratic (quartic) non-minimal coupling of the assistant field to gravity.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2203.09201,
  title  = {Non-minimally assisted chaotic inflation},
  author = {Sang Chul Hyun and Jinsu Kim and Seong Chan Park and Tomo Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09201},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v1: 11 pages; v2: 11 pages, references updated, typos corrected, accepted for publication in JCAP

R2 v1 2026-06-24T10:16:52.701Z