Sigmoidal Inflation

Abstract

In this paper we present a new cosmological inflationary model which is constructed using the Ivanov-Salopek-Bond method with a logistic generating function. We derive the inflationary observables as well as the duration and temperature of the subsequent reheating epoch of our model exactly, with no need to recur to the slow roll approximation. The obtained scalar spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio of perturbations fall comfortably within the range of the measurements presented by the Planck collaboration. On the other hand, for the reheating era, our model predicts a relatively small number of e-folds and thus high temperatures, still within range of Planck's bounds.

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