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On the problem of initial conditions for inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-13 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

I review the present status of the problem of initial conditions for inflation and describe several ways to solve this problem for many popular inflationary models, including the recent generation of the models with plateau potentials favored by cosmological observations.

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@article{arxiv.1710.04278,
  title  = {On the problem of initial conditions for inflation},
  author = {Andrei Linde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04278},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages, 6 figures, minor corrections