3 papers
gr-qc2019
Trans-Planckian Censorship and -inflation
Wei-Chen Lin, William H. Kinney
We propose a more general version of the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC) which can apply to models of inflation with varying speed of sound. We find that inflation mode…
astro-ph.CO2019
Dynamical Analysis of Attractor Behavior in Constant Roll Inflation
Wei-Chen Lin, Michael J. P. Morse, William H. Kinney
There has been considerable recent interest in a new class of non-slow roll inflationary solutions known as \textit{constant roll} inflation. Constant roll solutions are a generali…
astro-ph.CO2018
Consistency of Tachyacoustic Cosmology with de Sitter Swampland Conjectures
Wei-Chen Lin, William H. Kinney
Recent studies show that there is tension between the de Sitter swampland conjectures proposed by Obeid, et al. and inflationary cosmology. In this paper, we consider an alternativ…