Inflationary Cosmology after Planck 2013
By Andrei Linde. 2014
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I give a general review of inflationary cosmology and of its present status, in view of the 2013 data release by the Planck satellite. A specific emphasis is given to the new broad class of theories, the cosmological attractors, which have nearly model-independent predictions converging at the sweet spot of the Planck data in the (n_s,r) plane. I also discuss the problem of initial conditions for the theories favored by the Planck data.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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In Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Citations in the corpus
- Inflationary schism after Planck2013 (2014, background): “In their response [2], Guth, Kaiser, and Nomura (GKN) countered that cosmic inflation is “on stronger footing than ever,” [gkn1](1) and Linde [3] has expressed his support of that view.”
- Cosmological attractors and initial conditions for inflation (2015, background): “This can be done in several different ways discussed in [23] and in Section 10 of our paper, but the existence of the shift symmetry revealed in this paper allows for yet another solution which is rather simple and general.”
- Large field inflation and double α-attractors (2014, background): “For a detailed discussion of related issues and for the description of incorporation of these models to superconformal theory and supergravity see [9, 10, 11, 13, 15] (and [16] for related work).”
- Beginning inflation in an inhomogeneous universe (2015, background): “In the particular class of so-called cosmological attractors (see [10, 11] and references therein), which have potentials that rapidly approach a positive constant for large values of the inflaton field, this plateau includes all but a finite range of values – and hence, with high probability the av”