Non-minimal Inflationary Attractors

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Recently we identified a new class of (super)conformally invariant theories which allow inflation even if the scalar potential is very steep in terms of the original conformal variables.

• Observational predictions of a broad class of such theories are nearly model-independent.
• In this paper we consider generalized versions of these models where the inflaton has a non-minimal coupling to gravity with \xi <0 different from its conformal value \xi = -1/6.
• We show that these models exhibit attractor behavior.