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hep-th2005★ 129 cited
Reheating the Universe after String Theory Inflation
Lev Kofman, Piljin Yi
In String theory realizations of inflation, the end point of inflation is often brane-anti brane annihilation. We consider the processes of reheating of the Standard Model universe…
hep-ph2005★ 225 cited
Equation of state and Beginning of Thermalization After Preheating
Dmitry I. Podolsky, Gary N. Felder, Lev Kofman +1
We study the out-of-equilibrium nonlinear dynamics of fields after post-inflationary preheating. During preheating, the energy in the homogeneous inflaton is exponentially rapidly…