Initial Conditions for Inflation
Paolo Creminelli (Head, High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (HECAP), The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy)
09-Jul-2020, 12:00-14:30 (4 years ago)
Abstract: Cosmic inflation makes the universe flat and homogeneous, but under what conditions inflation starts? I will discuss analytical results that show, with weak assumptions, that inflation starts somewhere and some theorems in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions that support the de Sitter no-hair conjecture.
astrophysicscondensed mattergeneral relativity and quantum cosmologyHEP - phenomenologyHEP - theorymathematical physicsquantum physics
Audience: researchers in the topic
Quantum Aspects of Space-Time and Matter
| Organizers: | Sayantan Choudhury*, Johannes Knaute* |
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