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slow-roll inflation: a standalone construct

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Cosmology

inflation driven by a scalar field rolling slowly down a flat potential, ending smoothly and avoiding the defects of old inflation.

In cosmology, slow-roll inflation refers to inflation driven by a scalar field rolling slowly down a flat potential, ending smoothly and avoiding the defects of old inflation. This meaning comes from Albrecht (1982) in Physical Review Letters.[1]

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References

Albrecht, A., & Steinhardt, P. J. (1982). Cosmology for Grand Unified Theories with Radiatively Induced Symmetry Breaking. Physical Review Letters, 48(17), 1220-1223. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.1220

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