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Quintessential Inflation with Dynamical Higgs Generation as an Affine Gravity
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Benisty, D.; Guendelman, E.I.; Nissimov, E.; Pacheva, S. Quintessential Inflation with Dynamical Higgs Generation as an Affine Gravity. Symmetry 2020, 12, 734. Benisty, D.; Guendelman, E.I.; Nissimov, E.; Pacheva, S. Quintessential Inflation with Dynamical Higgs Generation as an Affine Gravity. Symmetry 2020, 12, 734.
Abstract
First, we propose a scale-invariant modified gravity interacting with a neutral scalar inflaton and a Higgs-like SU(2)xU(1) iso-doublet scalar field based on the formalism of non-Riemannian (metric-independent) spacetime volume-elements. This model describes in the physical Einstein frame a quintessential inflationary scenario driven by the "inflaton" together with gravity-inflaton assisted dynamical spontaneous SU(2)xU(1) symmetry
breaking in the post-inflationary universe, whereas SU(2)xU(1) symmetry remains intact in the inflationary epoch. Next, we find the explicit representation of the latter quintessential
inflationary model with a dynamical Higgs effect as an Eddington-type purely affine
gravity.
Keywords
Inflation; Dark Energy; Dynamical Higgs Effect; Quintessence
Subject
Physical Sciences, Particle and Field Physics
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