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arXiv:0911.4128·v3·Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

A new type of scalar field inflation

Cristiano Germani (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris)🇫🇷 · Alex Kehagias (NTUA, Athens)🇬🇷

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Abstract

In this short note we discuss the possibility of producing a slow rolling inflationary background by considering a massive scalar field whose kinetic term is non-minimally coupled to gravity.

Comments: 5 pages; Proceedings of 'Invisible Universe International Conference', Paris, June 29- July 3, 2009; v3 references and clarification added; accepted for publication

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