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Inflating and Reheating the Universe with an Independent Affine Connection

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arxiv 2207.08830 v2 pith:FVRLCW77 submitted 2022-07-18 hep-ph astro-ph.COgr-qchep-th

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It is shown that a component of the dynamical affine connection, which is independent of the metric, can drive inflation in agreement with observations. This provides a geometrical origin for the inflaton. It is also found that the decays of this field, which has spin 0 and odd parity, into Higgs bosons can reheat the universe up to a sufficiently high temperature.

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