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Hillclimbing saddle point inflation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-02-01 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recently a new inflationary scenario was proposed in arXiv:1703.09020 which can be applicable to an inflaton having multiple vacua. In this letter, we consider a more general situation where the inflaton potential has a (UV) saddle point around the Planck scale. This class of models can be regarded as a natural generalization of the hillclimbing Higgs inflation (arXiv:1705.03696).

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@article{arxiv.1712.00729,
  title  = {Hillclimbing saddle point inflation},
  author = {Kiyoharu Kawana and Katsuta Sakai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00729},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures; Report number added (v2)

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