Abstract
We propose a realization of cosmic inflation with the Higgs field when the Higgs potential has degenerate vacua by employing the recently proposed idea of hill-climbing inflation. The resultant inflationary predictions exhibit a sizable deviation from those of the ordinary Higgs inflation.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 023523 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 24 2018 |
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