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Models of inflation and their predictions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Taking field theory seriously, inflation model-building is difficult but not impossible. The observed value of the spectral index of the adiabatic density perturbation is starting to discriminate between models, and may well pick out a unique one in the forseeable future.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902425,
  title  = {Models of inflation and their predictions},
  author = {David H Lyth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902425},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex 5 pages. To appear in Particle Physics and the Early Universe (COSMO99), AIP (1999)