First Order Inflation in General Relativity

Abstract

I give a general formulation of the constraints on models of inflation ended by a first order phase transition arising from the requirement that they do not produce too many large (observable) true vacuum voids -- the `big bubble problem'. It is shown that this constraint can be satisfied by a simple model in Einstein gravity -- a variant of `hybrid' or `false vacuum' inflation. (Talk presented at `Birth of the Universe' workshop Rome, May 1994)

4 pages, plain LaTeX, 2 figures available on request from author, SUSSEX-AST-94/7-1

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• Hybrid Inflation
• False Vacuum Inflation with Einstein Gravity
• The Cold Dark Matter Density Perturbation
• Double Field Inflation
• General Solutions for Tunneling of Scalar Fields with Quartic Potentials
• Extended Inflation with a Curvature-Coupled Inflaton