Natural Slow-Roll Inflation

Abstract

It is shown that the non-perturbative dynamics of a phase change to the non-trivial phase of $\lambda {\phi }^4$-theory in the early universe can give rise to slow-rollover inflation without recourse to unnaturally small couplings.

14 LaTex pages (3 figures available on request), UNITUE-THEP-15-1993

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