# Hillclimbing Higgs inflation

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel Higgs inflation model utilizing hillclimbing inflation, which predicts different inflationary outcomes compared to traditional Higgs inflation, especially in scenarios with degenerate vacua.

## Contribution

It presents a new inflationary framework based on hillclimbing inflation with the Higgs field and degenerate vacua, expanding the landscape of Higgs inflation models.

## Key findings

- Inflationary predictions differ significantly from ordinary Higgs inflation.
- The model accommodates degenerate vacua in the Higgs potential.
- Potential for observable deviations in cosmic microwave background signatures.

## 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.