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Cosmic inflation

Cosmic inflation is an early period of accelerated expansion, often modeled by a scalar field whose potential energy dominates its kinetic energy.

Table of contents 304 14
- Inflaton Cosmic inflation 132 5
  - Inflaton action in an expanding universe Inflaton 119 4
    - Inflationary scalar Fourier mode Inflaton action in an expanding universe 97 3
      - Canonically rescaled de Sitter scalar mode Inflationary scalar Fourier mode 77 2
        Bunch-Davies vacuum Canonically rescaled de Sitter scalar mode 61 1
        Scale-invariant inflationary power spectrum Bunch-Davies vacuum 39
- Slow-roll approximation Cosmic inflation 150 7

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