Birth of universes with non-minimal coupling

Part I : Models of cosmological inflation are plagued with a severe and seemingly unavoidable problem: in order to produce density perturbations of an amplitude consistent with large scale observations, the self-coupling λ of the inflaton field has to be tuned to an excessively small value. In all t...

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Main Author: Fakir, Redouane
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29097