First Order Inflation in General Relativity
Astrophysics
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
I give a general formulation of the constraints on models of inflation ended by a first order phase transition arising from the requirement that they do not produce too many large (observable) true vacuum voids -- the `big bubble problem'. It is shown that this constraint can be satisfied by a simple model in Einstein gravity -- a variant of `hybrid' or `false vacuum' inflation. (Talk presented at `Birth of the Universe' workshop Rome, May 1994)
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9407060,
title = {First Order Inflation in General Relativity},
author = {David Wands},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9407060},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, plain LaTeX, 2 figures available on request from author, SUSSEX-AST-94/7-1