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On the Problem of Initial Conditions for Inflation.

Authors :
Linde, Andrei
Source :
Foundations of Physics. Oct2018, Vol. 48 Issue 10, p1246-1260. 15p. 1 Color Photograph, 4 Graphs.
Publication Year :
2018

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects

Subjects :
*INFLATIONARY universe
*PHYSICAL cosmology
*METAPHYSICAL cosmology
*PLATEAU'S problem
*QUANTUM cosmology
*STRING cosmology
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Language :
English
ISSN :
00159018
Volume :
48
Issue :
10
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Foundations of Physics
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
132044311
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-018-0177-9
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