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Quintessential Inflation in a thawing realization

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-08-04 v2

Abstract

We study quintessential inflation with an inverse hyperbolic type potential V(ϕ)=V0/cosh(ϕn/λn)V(\phi) = {V_0}/{\cosh \left( {\phi^n}/{\lambda^n} \right)}, where V0V_0, λ\lambda and "n" are parameters of the theory. We obtain a bound on λ\lambda for different values of the parameter n. The spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar-ratio fall in the 1σ1 \sigma bound given by the Planck 2015 data for n5n \geq 5 for certain values of λ\lambda. However for 3n<53 \leq n < 5 there exist values of λ\lambda for which the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar-ratio fall only within the 2σ2 \sigma bound of the Planck data. Furthermore, we show that the scalar field with the given potential can also give rise to late time acceleration if we invoke the coupling to massive neutrino matter. We also consider the instant preheating mechanism with Yukawa interaction and put bounds on the coupling constants for our model using the nucleosynthesis constraint on relic gravity waves produced during inflation.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00156,
  title  = {Quintessential Inflation in a thawing realization},
  author = {Abhineet Agarwal and R. Myrzakulov and M. Sami and Naveen K. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00156},
  year   = {2017}
}

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11 pages

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