Features and implications of the plateau inflationary potentials
arXiv:1602.05026
Abstract
After the last PLANCK CMB data the plateau inflationary potentials are favored. I give some examples of such inflationary models emphasizing particularly on the Starobinsky model and its supergravity embedding. I discuss the crucial implications, regarding the initial conditions problem, of this new sort of potentials for the standard picture of the inflationary theory.
10 pages, 5 figures, prepared for Planck 2015 conference. 25-29 May 2015. Ioannina, Greece CNUM: C15-05-25.1