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Just enough inflation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-12-23 v1

Abstract

We propose a version of chaotic inflation, in which a fundamental scale M, well below the Planck scale M_P, fixes the initial value of the effective potential. If this scale happens to be the scale of grand unified theories, there are just enough e-foldings of inflation. An initial epoch of fast-roll breaks scale-invariance at the largest observable scales.

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@article{arxiv.0912.4348,
  title  = {Just enough inflation},
  author = {Dominik J. Schwarz and Erandy Ramirez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4348},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, talk presented at MG12, Paris, 2009

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