Inflation beyond T-models and primordial B-modes

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We describe extended theories which shares the gauge transformation symmetry of the T-models, and takes the T-models as well as Starobinsky model as special cases.

• We derive a general relation between the two slow-roll parameters, and find that a large class of models can be embedded.
• Such models include more general Starobinsky-like inflation as well as the chaotic inflation with a large tensor-to-scalar ratio consistent with the BICEP2 result.