Relaxing the TCC Bound on Inflationary Cosmology? [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00040


We demonstrate that the strict upper bounds on the energy scale of inflation and on the tensor-to-scalar ratio can be somewhat relaxed if we assume that – after an initial period of slow rolling when scales probed today in CMB experiments exit the Hubble radius – the equation of state of the background changes to correspond to an almost marginally accelerating universe. Constructing an actual model in which this happens appears, however, to be unnatural.

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V. Kamali and R. Brandenberger
Fri, 3 Jan 20
32/45

Comments: 5 pages, no figures