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hep-th2012★ 36 cited
Chern-Simons EM-flation
Emil Martinec, Peter Adshead, Mark Wyman
We propose a new, generic mechanism of inflation mediated by a balance between potential forces and a Chern-Simons interaction. Such quasi-topological interactions are ubiquitous i…
hep-th2012★ 73 cited
Gauge-flation trajectories in Chromo-Natural Inflation
Peter Adshead, Mark Wyman
We provide a detailed discussion of the multifield trajectories and inflationary dynamics of the recently proposed model of Chromo-Natural inflation, which allows for slow roll inf…
hep-th2012★ 287 cited
Chromo-Natural Inflation: Natural inflation on a steep potential with classical non-Abelian gauge fields
Peter Adshead, Mark Wyman
We propose a model for inflation consisting of an axionic scalar field coupled to a set of three non-Abelian gauge fields. Our model's novel requirement is that the gauge fields be…