submitted on 2023-12-11, 08:09 and posted on 2023-12-13, 12:39authored byMahmoud AlHallak, Khalil Kalid Al-Said, Nidal Chamoun, Moustafa Sayem El-Daher
<p dir="ltr">We investigate natural inflation with non-minimal coupling to gravity, characterized either by a quadratic or a periodic term, within the warm inflation paradigm during the slow-roll stage, in both strong and weak dissipation limits; and show that, in the case of a T-linearly dependent dissipative term, it can accommodate the spectral index ns and tensor-to-scalar ratio r observables given by Planck 2018 constraints, albeit with a too-small value of the e-folding number to solve the horizon problem, providing, thus, only a partial solution to natural inflation issues, assuming a T-cubically dependent dissipative term can provide a solution to this e-folding number issue.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Universe<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/universe9020080" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/universe9020080</a></p>
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