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Thermal, Trapped and Chromo-Natural Inflation in light of the Swampland Criteria and the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture
Arjun Berera, Robert Brandenberger, Vahid Kamali +1
We consider thermal, trapped and chromo-natural inflation in light of the swampland criteria and the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC). Since thermal inflation occurs at…
Creating Spatial Flatness by Combining String Gas Cosmology and Power Law Inflation
Vahid Kamali, Robert Brandenberger
We show that it is possible to combine an early phase of String Gas Cosmology which can explain the origin of the observed structures on cosmological scales with a short later peri…
Strengthening the de Sitter swampland conjecture in warm inflation
Robert Brandenberger, Vahid Kamali, Rudnei O. Ramos
The "de Sitter constraint" on the space of effective scalar field theories consistent with superstring theory provides a lower bound on the slope of the potential of a scalar field…
Relaxing the TCC Bound on Inflationary Cosmology?
Vahid Kamali, Robert Brandenberger
We demonstrate that the strict upper bounds on the energy scale of inflation and on the tensor-to-scalar ratio can be somewhat relaxed if we assume that - after an initial period o…