Introductory review of cosmic inflation
Abstract
These lecture notes provide an introduction to cosmic inflation. In particular I will review the basic concepts of inflation, generation of density perturbations, and reheating after inflation.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2003
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/0304257
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/0304257
- Bibcode:
- 2003hep.ph....4257T
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 25 pages, 5 eps figures, lecture notes given at The Second Tah Poe School on Cosmology "Modern Cosmology", Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, April 17 -25, 2003