Inflation and Precision Cosmology
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A brief review of inflation is presented. After having demonstrated the generality of the inflationary mechanism, the emphasize is put on its simplest realization, namely the single field slow-roll inflationary scenario. Then, it is shown how, concretely, one can calculate the predictions of a given model of inflation. Finally, a short overview of the most popular models is given and the implications of the recently released WMAP data are briefly (and partially) discussed.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0312492,
title = {Inflation and Precision Cosmology},
author = {Jerome Martin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0312492},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages, 5 figures, plenary talk given at the XXIV Brazilian National Meeting on Particles and Fields (Caxambu, Brazil, 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2003)