Natural inflation with hidden scale invariance

We propose a new class of natural inflation models based on a hidden scale invariance. In a very generic Wilsonian effective field theory with an arbitrary number of scalar fields, which exhibits scale invariance via the dilaton, the potential necessarily contains a flat direction in the classical l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Neil D. Barrie, Archil Kobakhidze, Shelley Liang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316300272