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Initial Conditions for Inflation - A Short Review

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-02-08 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

I give a brief review of the status of research on the nature of initial conditions required to obtain a period of cosmological inflation. It is shown that there is good evidence that in the case of large field models, the inflationary slow-roll trajectory is a local attractor in initial condition space, whereas it is not in the case of small field models.

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@article{arxiv.1601.01918,
  title  = {Initial Conditions for Inflation - A Short Review},
  author = {Robert Brandenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01918},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Invited review article, references added

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