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Automorphic inflation is an application of the framework of automorphic scalar field theory, based on the theory of automorphic forms and representations. In this paper the general framework of automorphic and modular inflation is described in some detail, with emphasis on the resulting stratification of the space of scalar field theories in terms of the group theoretic data associated to the shift symmetry, as well as the automorphic data that specifies the potential. The class of theories based on Eisenstein series provides a natural generalization of the model of j-inflation considered previously.
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Schimmrigk, R. A general framework of automorphic inflation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 140 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2016)140
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