Natural inflation with natural number of e-foldings

Abstract

We examine natural inflation without the use of the standard slow-roll approximation by considering the number of physical e-folds $\ln (a_e{H}_e/aH)$. We show that $\tilde{H}=aH\propto \cos (A\varphi /2{)}^{2/A^2}\sin (A\varphi /2)$ produces a natural inflationary scenario. This model may be solved exactly, showing that the slow-roll approximation overestimates the tensor-to-scalar ratio by about $13-19\%$ for $n_s\approx 0.96$ and $50-60$ $e$-folds.

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