Thermal, Trapped and Chromo-Natural Inflation in light of the Swampland
  Criteria and the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture
  We consider thermal, trapped and chromo-natural inflation in light of the
swampland criteria and the Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC). Since
thermal inflation occurs at energies low compared to those of Grand
Unification, it is consistent with the TCC, and it is also consistent with the
refined swampland conditions. Trapped and chromo-natural inflation are
candidates for primordial (high energy scale) inflation. Since in both of these
scenarios there are effective damping terms in the scalar field equation of
motion, the models can easily be consistent with the swampland criteria. The
TCC, on the other hand, constrains these scenarios to only take place at low
energies.
