Swampland Program for Hypergeometric Inflation Scenarios in Rescaled Gravity

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate hypergeometric stringy corrections in the swampland program for rescaled gravity. Precisely, we study inflationary models from Gauss-Bonnet hypergeometric scalar couplings via the falsification scenario. We first derive generalized exponential potentials from such hypergeometric behaviors. Then, we examine certain selected scalar potentials by computing the relevant cosmological quantities using the slow-roll mechanism. Choosing specific points in the corresponding moduli space, we provide viable findings corroborated by Planck observational data and checked by the swampland criteria.

12 pages, one figure and one table. Authors in alphabetical order. Accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters A, 2024