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gr-qc2020★ 48 cited
Quintessential inflation in Palatini gravity
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Samuel Sánchez López
We investigate in detail a family of quintessential inflation models in the context of Palatini modified gravity. We find that successful inflation and quintessence are obt…
hep-ph2020★ 27 cited
An analytic treatment of Quartic Hilltop Inflation
Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Quartic hilltop inflation remains one of the most successful inflationary models. Yet, the expectations of early treatments of hilltop inflation would contradict the observations a…
gr-qc2020★ 15 cited
T-Model Inflation and Bouncing Cosmology
David Sloan, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Sotirios Karamitsos
We examine the dynamics of a closed cosmology whose matter source is that of a conformally coupled scalar field with a broken symmetry, which correspond to the -…