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Pure Natural Inflation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-12-12 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We point out that a simple inflationary model in which the axionic inflaton couples to a pure Yang-Mills theory may give the scalar spectral index (n_s) and tensor-to-scalar ratio (r) in complete agreement with the current observational data.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1706.08522,
  title  = {Pure Natural Inflation},
  author = {Yasunori Nomura and Taizan Watari and Masahito Yamazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.08522},
  year   = {2017}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, published version

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