Inflation without Slow Roll

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Abstract: We draw attention to the possibility that inflation (i.e. accelerated expansion) might continue after the end of slow roll, during a period of fast oscillations of the inflaton field phi . This phenomenon takes place when a mild non-convexity inequality is satisfied by the potential V(phi). The presence of such a period of phi-oscillation-driven inflation can substantially modify reheating scenarios. In some models the effect of these fast oscillations might be imprinted on the primordial perturbation spectrum at cosmological scales.




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