We consider an additional fine-tuning problem which afflicts scalar-driven models of inflation. The problem is that successful reheating requires the inflaton be coupled to ordinary matter, and quantum fluctuations of this matter induces Coleman-Weinberg potentials which are not Planck-suppressed. Unlike the flat space case, these potentials depend upon a still-unknown nonlocal functional of the metric which agrees with the Hubble parameter for de Sitter. Such a potential cannot be completely subtracted off by any local action. We numerically consider the effect of subtracting it off at the...
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