Mutated Hybrid Inflation

Abstract

A new model of inflation is described. An unusual form for the inflationary potential is obtained because the inflaton corresponds to a non-trivial path in the configuration space of the two real scalar fields of the model. The model predicts a spectral index $n=1-3/2N\simeq 0.97$ for the density perturbations and negligible gravitational waves.

5 pages, particle physics motivation expanded, other minor changes

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• Hybrid Inflation
• False Vacuum Inflation with Einstein Gravity
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