Minimal Composite Inflation
  We investigate models in which the inflaton emerges as a composite field of a
four dimensional, strongly interacting and nonsupersymmetric gauge theory
featuring purely fermionic matter. We show that it is possible to obtain
successful inflation via non-minimal coupling to gravity, and that the
underlying dynamics is preferred to be near conformal. We discover that the
compositeness scale of inflation is of the order of the grand unified energy
scale.
