Hillclimbing Higgs inflation

Abstract

We propose a realization of cosmic inflation with the Higgs field when the Higgs potential has degenerate vacua by employing the recently proposed idea of hillclimbing inflation. The resultant inflationary predictions exhibit a sizable deviation from those of the ordinary Higgs inflation.

5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table (v1); published version, references and footnotes added (v2)