On the Problem of Initial Conditions for Inflation
Abstract
I review the present status of the problem of initial conditions for inflation and describe several ways to solve this problem for many popular inflationary models, including the recent generation of the models with plateau potentials favored by cosmological observations.
- Publication:
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Foundations of Physics
- Pub Date:
- October 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10701-018-0177-9
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1710.04278
- Bibcode:
- 2018FoPh...48.1246L
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 18 pages, 6 figures, added a discussion of initial conditions for small field inflation, and for cosmological attractors with potentials with a finite plateau