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Warm Quintessential Inflation
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Leonora Donaldson-Wood
We introduce warm quintessential inflation and study it in the weak dissipative regime. We consider the original quintessential inflation model, which approximates quartic chaotic…
Quintessential inflation with a trap and axionic dark matter
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Mindaugas Karčiauskas, Charlotte Owen
We study a new model of quintessential inflation which is inspired by supergravity and string theory. The model features a kinetic pole, which gives rise to the inflationary platea…
Primordial Black Holes from Thermal Inflation
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Tommi Markkanen, Antonio Racioppi +1
We present a novel mechanism for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs). The mechanism is based on a period of thermal inflation followed by fast-roll inflation due to tac…