 Quartic-inflation tilt-tensor relation (source code)

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= Quartic-inflation tilt-tensor relation
{title2=$n_s-1=-3r/16$}

For canonical slow-roll inflation with $V(\phi)=\lambda\phi^4$, the leading <scalar spectral index> and <tensor-to-scalar ratio> obey
$$
n_s-1=-\frac3{16}r.
$$
It is a parameter-free consistency check of the quartic potential at leading slow-roll order.

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