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