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astro-ph.CO2017★ 30 cited
Gauss-Bonnet-coupled Quintessential Inflation
Carsten van de Bruck, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Chris Longden +1
We study in detail a new model of quintessential inflation where the inflaton field is coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet term. This coupling ensures that the variation of the field is ke…
astro-ph.CO2017★ 5 cited
Non-standard hierarchies of the runnings of the spectral index in inflation
Chris Longden
Recent analyses of cosmic microwave background surveys have revealed hints that there may be a non-trivial running of the running of the spectral index. If future experiments were…