1999/10/12 by Edward W. Kolb, Kolb, Edward W.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9910311
Forty page review paper based on a lecture presented at the Pritzker Symposium on the Status of the Inflationary Cosmology. Includes 14 figures
arxiv created 1999/10/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
There is very strong circumstantial evidence that there was an inflationary epoch very early in the history of the universe. In this lecture I will describe how we might be able to piece together some understanding of the dynamics during and immediately after the inflationary epoch.