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PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 733, Issue -, Pages 241-246Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.04.039
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Funding
- JSPS [24740135]
- Inoue Foundation for Science
- World Premier International Center Initiative (WPI Program), MEXT, Japan
- [24111702]
- [21111006]
- [23104008]
- [22244030]
- [21244033]
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We propose a multi-natural inflation model in which the single-field inflaton potential consists of two or more sinusoidal potentials that are comparable in size but have different periodicity with a possible non-zero relative phase. The model is versatile enough to realize both large-field and small-field inflation. We show that, in a model with two sinusoidal potentials, the predicted values of the spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio lie within the 1 sigma region of the Planck data. In particular, there is no lower bound on the decay constants in contrast to the original natural inflation. We also show that, in a certain limit, multi-natural inflation can be approximated by a hilltop quartic inflation model. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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