Quintessential inflation: A unified scenario of inflation and dark energy

Abstract

Quintessential inflation unifies inflation and late time acceleration by a single scalar field. Such a scenario, with canonical and non-canonical scalar fields, has been discussed . The scalar field behaves as an inflaton field during inflation and as a quintessence field during late time. Also the predictions of the models has been compared with the recent Planck data.

5 pages, 5 figures, Based on the talk given at the Joint International Conference of ICGAC-XIII and IK-15 on Gravitation, Astrophysics and Cosmology held at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea (July 3-7, 2017), Published in EPJ Web of Conferences

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• Baryogenesis in the paradigm of quintessential inflation