Relaxing the TCC bound on inflationary cosmology? 2020

Vahid Kamali, and Robert Brandenberger
Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8 Canada.

We demonstrate that the strict upper bounds on the energy scale of inflation and on the tensor-to-scalar ratio can be somewhat relaxed if we assume that - after an initial period of slow rolling when scales probed today in CMB experiments exit the Hubble radius - the equation of state of the background changes to correspond to an almost marginally accelerating universe. Constructing an actual model in which this happens appears, however, to be unnatural.

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