Initial Conditions for Smooth Hybrid Inflation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We perform a numerical investigation of the field evolution in the smooth hybrid inflationary model. We find that for almost all the examined initial values we do get an adequate amount of inflation. Our results show that the model is ''natural'' and satisfactory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9606297,
title = {Initial Conditions for Smooth Hybrid Inflation},
author = {G. Lazarides and C. Panagiotakopoulos and N. D. Vlachos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9606297},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
14 pages 2 eps figures. To appear in Phys.Rev.D