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To Positivity and Beyond, where Higgs-Dilaton Inflation has never gone before

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-01-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the consequences of (beyond) positivity of scattering amplitudes in the effective field theory description of the Higgs-Dilaton inflationary model. By requiring the EFT to be compatible with a unitary, causal, local and Lorentz invariant UV completion, we derive constraints on the Wilson coefficients of the first higher order derivative operators. We show that the values allowed by the constraints are consistent with the phenomenological applications of the Higgs-Dilaton model.

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@article{arxiv.1905.08816,
  title  = {To Positivity and Beyond, where Higgs-Dilaton Inflation has never gone before},
  author = {Mario Herrero-Valea and Inar Timiryasov and Anna Tokareva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08816},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

27 pages, 6 figures; matches the published version