Lectures on Inflationary Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
A general overview of the history and present status of inflationary cosmology is given. Recent developments discussed in this paper include the hybrid inflation scenario, the theory of reheating, and the theory of inflating tolopogical defects. We also discuss the theory of a stationary self-reproducing inflationary universe, and its possible implications for evaluating the most probable values of the gravitational and cosmological constants. Finally, we discuss some preliminary results concerning possible nonperturbative large-scale deviations of density from the critical density in inflationary universe.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9410082,
title = {Lectures on Inflationary Cosmology},
author = {Andrei Linde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9410082},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
44 pages, Stanford University preprint SU-ITP-94-36, LaTeX