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Constant-roll inflation: confrontation with recent observational data

Hayato MotohashiHayato MotohashiAlexei A. StarobinskyAlexei A. Starobinsky

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High Energy Physics - TheoryClass (set theory)Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)FOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomyModel parametersGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)AstrophysicsAstrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics01 natural sciencesGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologysymbols.namesakeTheoretical physicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology0103 physical sciencesPlanck010306 general physicsPhysicsInflation (cosmology)010308 nuclear & particles physicsInflatonHigh Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)symbolsObservational studyConstant (mathematics)Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

description

The previously proposed class of phenomenological inflationary models in which the assumption of inflaton slow-roll is replaced by the more general, constant-roll condition is compared with the most recent cosmological observational data, mainly the Planck ones. Models in this two-parametric class which remain viable appear to be close to the slow-roll ones, and their inflaton potentials are close to (but still different from) that of the natural inflation model. Permitted regions for the two model parameters are presented.

10.1209/0295-5075/117/39001http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05847