Cosmic inflation from broken conformal symmetry
  A period of rapidly accelerating expansion is expected in the early Universe
implemented by a scalar field slowly rolling down along an asymptotically flat
potential preferred by the current data. In this paper, we point out that this
picture of the cosmic inflation with an asymptotically flat potential could
emerge from the Palatini quadratic gravity by adding the matter field in such a
way to break the local gauged conformal symmetry in both kinetic and potential
terms.
