Extra-Natural Inflation (De)constructed

Abstract

Extra-natural inflation is (de)constructed. Explicit models are compared with cosmological observations. The models successfully achieve trans-Planckian inflaton field excursions.

1+36 pages, 21 figure files v2: minor corrections. ref added

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