Pole inflation from non-minimal coupling to gravity
  Transforming canonical scalars to the Einstein frame can give a multi-field
generalization of pole inflation (namely, a scalar with a divergent kinetic
term) at vanishing field-dependent Planck mass. However, to obtain an
attractor, the scalar potential must obey certain non-generic conditions. These
are automatically satisfied in Quantum Field Theories with dimension-less
couplings. The resulting models of pole inflation have special inflationary
predictions determined by the full RG running of couplings. Acceptable
predictions for the tensor/scalar ratio arise for perturbative but moderately
large couplings, so we explore the possible QFT runnings: to confinement, to an
IR fixed point, and to a UV fixed point.
