English

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(ωre\overline{\omega }_{\text{re}}) in shaping observable predictions. By exploring the allowed range of ωre\overline{\omega }_{\text{re}}, we derive reheating temperature, e-fold counts, and inflationary observables, showing that the conventional Mexican Hat model satisfies Planck18+BK18+BAO constraints on nsn_s 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}
}
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