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S-dual Inflation: BICEP2 data without unlikeliness

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-06-04 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that S-dual inflationary potentials solve the unlikeliness problem manifested in Planck data and explain the excess B-mode power observed by the BICEP2 experiment as arising from primordial tensor fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.1403.4578,
  title  = {S-dual Inflation: BICEP2 data without unlikeliness},
  author = {Luis A. Anchordoqui and Vernon Barger and Haim Goldberg and Xing Huang and Danny Marfatia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4578},
  year   = {2014}
}

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