Violation of slow-roll in non-minimal inflation

Abstract

We show that a non-minimal coupling to gravity can not only make some inflationary models consistent with cosmological data, similar to the case of Higgs inflation, but can also invoke slow-roll violation to realize graceful exit from inflation. In particular, this is the case in models where a destabilizing mechanism that ends inflation should be assumed when the model is minimally coupled to gravity. As explicit examples, we consider the power-law and inverse monomial inflation models with a non-minimal coupling to gravity. While these models are excluded in the minimally coupled case, we show that they can become viable again in non-minimally coupled scenarios. In most scenarios we considered, reheating can be naturally realized via gravitational particle production but that this depends on the underlying theory of gravity in a non-trivial way.

arXiv comment16 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in PRD

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