Prospects of Inflation
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-09-29 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
I will discuss the development of inflationary theory and its present status, including recent progress in describing de Sitter space and inflationary universe in string theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402051,
title = {Prospects of Inflation},
author = {Andrei Linde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402051},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
23 pages, extended version of the talk at the Nobel Symposium "Cosmology and String Theory," August 2003; references added