20+ years of Inflation
arXiv:hep-ph/0210050 · doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(02)01889-3
Abstract
In this talk I will review the present status of inflationary cosmology and its emergence as the basic paradigm behind the Standard Cosmological Model, with parameters determined today at better than 10% level from CMB and LSS observations. I will also discuss the recent theoretical developments on the process of reheating after inflation and model building based on string theory and D-branes.
14 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX, uses espcrc2.sty (included)
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