Reheating study of Mexican-Hat-type Potentials
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2026-02-23 v1
Abstract
We study reheating in Mexican Hat type potentials, emphasizing the role of the post-inflationary equation-of-state parameter() in shaping observable predictions. By exploring the allowed range of , we derive reheating temperature, e-fold counts, and inflationary observables, showing that the conventional Mexican Hat model satisfies Planck18+BK18+BAO constraints on and r. The analysis underscores reheating as a critical link between theoretical potentials and CMB data. In addition, the holographic Mexican Hat realization is examined as a benchmark, with our results mapping its phenomenological boundaries. This work illustrates how reheating studies sharpen constraints and guide refinements of unified inflationary scenarios.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.16144,
title = {Reheating study of Mexican-Hat-type Potentials},
author = {Sudhava Yadav and Akash Yadav and K. K. Venkataratnam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16144},
year = {2026}
}