Tensor modes in pure natural inflation

We study tensor modes in pure natural inflation [1], a recently-proposed inflationary model in which an axionic inflaton couples to pure Yang–Mills gauge fields. We find that the tensor-to-scalar ratio r is naturally bounded from below. This bound originates from the finiteness of the number of meta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yasunori Nomura, Masahito Yamazaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269318301849