Functional Approach to Stochastic Inflation
arXiv:gr-qc/9407034 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.52.4287
Abstract
We propose functional approach to the stochastic inflationary universe dynamics. It is based on path integral representation of the solution to the differential equation for the scalar field probability distribution. In the saddle-point approximation scalar field probability distributions of various type are derived and the statistics of the inflationary-history-dependent functionals is developed.
20 pages, Preprint BROWN-HET-960, uses phyzzx
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