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A First Principles Warm Inflation Model that Solves the Cosmological Horizon/Flatness Problems

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v3 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A quantum field theory warm inflation model is presented that solves the horizon/flatness problems. The model obtains, from the elementary dynamics of particle physics, cosmological scale factor trajectories that begin in a radiation dominated regime, enter an inflationary regime and then smoothly exit back into a radiation dominated regime, with nonnegligible radiation throughout the evolution.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9809583,
  title  = {A First Principles Warm Inflation Model that Solves the Cosmological Horizon/Flatness Problems},
  author = {Arjun Berera and Marcelo Gleiser and Rudnei O. Ramos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9809583},
  year   = {2008}
}

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In Press Physical Review Letters 1999, 5 pgs, 1 fig., latex