Testing Inflation: A Bootstrap Approach
arXiv:0810.2787 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.241301
Abstract
We note that the essential idea of inflation, that the universe underwent a brief period of accelerated expansion followed by a long period of decelerated expansion, can be encapsulated in a "closure condition" which relates the amount of accelerated expansion during inflation to the amount of decelerated expansion afterward. We present a protocol for systematically testing the validity of this condition observationally.
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