Non-Bunch-Davies Initial State Reconciles Chaotic Models with BICEP and
  Planck
  The BICEP2 experiment has announced a signal for primordial gravity waves
with tensor-to-scalar ratio $r=0.2^{+0.07}_{-0.05}$ [arXiv:1403.3985]. There
are two ways to reconcile this result with the latest Planck experiment
[arXiv:1303.5082]. One is by assuming that there is a considerable tilt of $r$,
$\mathcal{T}_r$, with a positive sign, $\mathcal{T}_r=d\ln r/d\ln k\gtrsim
0.57^{+0.29}_{-0.27}$ corresponding to a blue tilt for the tensor modes of
order $n_T\simeq0.53 ^{+0.29}_{-0.27}$, assuming the Planck experiment best-fit
value for tilt of scalar power spectrum $n_S$. The other possibility is to
assume that there is a negative running in the scalar spectral index,
$dn_S/d\ln k\simeq -0.02$ which pushes up the upper bound on $r$ from $0.11$ up
to $0.26$ in the Planck analysis assuming the existence of a tensor spectrum.
Simple slow-roll models fail to provide such large values for $\mathcal{T}_r$
or negative runnings in $n_S$ [arXiv:1403.3985]. In this note we show that a
non-Bunch-Davies initial state for perturbations can provide a match between
large field chaotic models (like $m^2\phi^2$) with the latest Planck result
[arXiv:1306.4914] and BICEP2 results by accommodating either the blue tilt of
$r$ or the negative large running of $n_S$.
