Lectures on Inflation

Abstract

Planning to explore the beginning of the Universe? A lightweight introductory guide to the theory of Inflation.

87 pages, 29 figures

References in corpus (28)

• Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Parameter Results
• Non-Gaussian features of primordial fluctuations in single field inflationary models
• Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Final Maps and Results
• Causality, Analyticity and an IR Obstruction to UV Completion
• DBI in the Sky
• What would we learn by detecting a gravitational wave signal in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy?
• Single field consistency relation for the 3-point function
• Electroweak symmetry breaking after LEP1 and LEP2
• Quasi-Single Field Inflation and Non-Gaussianities
• Ghost Inflation
• Starting the Universe: Stable Violation of the Null Energy Condition and Non-standard Cosmologies
• A Measurement of the Damping Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum with the South Pole Telescope
• Planck 2013 Results. XXIV. Constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity
• Non-Gaussianities in Single Field Inflation and their Optimal Limits from the WMAP 5-year Data
• Limits on non-Gaussianities from WMAP data
• TASI Lectures on Inflation
• Detection of the Power Spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
• Cosmological Collider Physics
• The Effective Field Theory of Multifield Inflation
• On the consistency relation of the 3-point function in single field inflation
• The (not so) squeezed limit of the primordial 3-point function
• New Sources of Gravitational Waves during Inflation
• On Loops in Inflation III: Time Independence of zeta in Single Clock Inflation
• Effective Field Theory and the Fermi Surface
• A Naturally Large Four-Point Function in Single Field Inflation
• The Volume of the Universe after Inflation and de Sitter Entropy
• The Physical Squeezed Limit: Consistency Relations at Order q^2
• Universality of the Volume Bound in Slow-Roll Eternal Inflation

Cited by in corpus (14)

• No-go for the formation of heavy mass Primordial Black Holes in Single Field Inflation
• Observational Constraints on Dynamical Dark Energy Models
• How Problematic is the Near-Euclidean Spatial Geometry of the Large-Scale Universe?
• Lectures on Reheating after Inflation
• Brane inflation and the robustness of the Starobinsky inflationary model
• The Cosmological OTOC: A New Proposal for Quantifying Auto-Correlated Random Non-Chaotic Primordial Fluctuations
• Non-Gaussianity from $X,Y$ gauge bosons in Cosmological Collider Physics
• Bispectrum at 1-loop in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation
• Conformal Standard Model and Inflation
• Physics Beyond the Multiverse - Naturalness and the Quest for a Fundamental Theory
• Cosmological Perturbations in the Early Universe
• Cosmological Geometric Phase From Pure Quantum States: A study without/with having Bell's inequality violation
• A new branch of inflationary speed limits
• Fluctuations and non-Gaussianity in de Sitter spacetime from holographic entanglement entropy