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hep-th2007★ 45 cited
Rapid roll Inflation with Conformal Coupling
Lev Kofman, Shinji Mukohyama
Usual inflation is realized with a slow rolling scalar field minimally coupled to gravity. In contrast, we consider dynamics of a scalar with a flat effective potential, conformall…
astro-ph2007★ 338 cited
Theory and Numerics of Gravitational Waves from Preheating after Inflation
Jean Francois Dufaux, Amanda Bergman, Gary N. Felder +2
Preheating after inflation involves large, time-dependent field inhomogeneities, which act as a classical source of gravitational radiation. The resulting spectrum might be probed…
hep-th2007★ 1 cited
Trans-Planckian Issue in the Milne Universe
Pascal M. Vaudrevange, Lev Kofman
The ``trans-Planckian'' challenge in cosmology appears when we trace the present physical wavelengths of fluctuations backwards in time. They become smaller and smaller until cross…