Initial conditions for small-field inflation
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2010-01-05 v3
Abstract
Small-field inflation typically requires rather special initial conditions to commence. It is proposed that in models where the inflaton is an axionlike field, with a periodic contribution to the potential, there is a possibility of significantly enhancing the chances of inflation without any fine-tuning of initial conditions and with no additional fine-tuning of the dynamics beyond what is needed for the potential to support inflation in the first place.
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@article{arxiv.0903.4999,
title = {Initial conditions for small-field inflation},
author = {Michal Spalinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4999},
year = {2010}
}