Bare mass effects on the reheating process after inflation

Simon Clery, Marcos A. G. Garcia, Yann Mambrini +1

We consider the effects of a bare mass term for the inflaton, when the inflationary potential takes the form $V(\varphi )=\lambda {\varphi }^k$ about its minimum with $k\ge 4$. We concentrate on $k=4$,…