Spiral Inflation

Abstract

We propose a novel scenario of primordial inflation in which the inflaton goes through a spiral motion starting from around the top of a symmetry breaking potential. We show that, even though inflation takes place for a field value much smaller than Planck scale, it is possible to obtain relatively large tensor to scalar ratio ($r\sim 0.1$) without fine tuning. The inflationary observables perfectly match Planck data.

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