https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816806001
Flattening the inflaton potential beyond minimal gravity
1Department of physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea.
* e-mail: hminlee@cau.ac.kr
Published online: 9 January 2018
We review the status of the Starobinsky-like models for inflation beyond minimal gravity and discuss the unitarity problem due to the presence of a large non-minimal gravity coupling. We show that the induced gravity models allow for a self-consistent description of inflation and discuss the implications of the inflaton couplings to the Higgs field in the Standard Model.
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