Confronting Inflation and Reheating with Observations: Improved Predictions
arXiv:2507.20307 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140204
Abstract
Using the latest observational data, we constrain the inflationary dynamics and the subsequent reheating epoch. Predictions for both phases can be significantly improved by employing numerically computed results compared to the slow-roll approximations. These results enable a more accurate reassessment of the observational viability of inflationary models, provide tighter constraints on the reheating history, and help lift the degeneracies in the predictions of inflation and reheating dynamics. Given current observational bounds, this enables a more accurate understanding of the early universe physics.
11 pages,6 figures, accepted by Physics Letters B
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