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Instant Preheating
Gary Felder, Lev Kofman, Andrei Linde
We describe a new efficient mechanism of reheating. Immediately after rolling down the rapidly moving inflaton field produces particles , which may be either bosons or fermi…
Is Warm Inflation Possible?
Jun'ichi Yokoyama, Andrei Linde
We show that it is extremely difficult and perhaps even impossible to have inflation supported by thermal effects.
A Toy Model for Open Inflation
Andrei Linde
The open inflation scenario based on the theory of bubble formation in the models of a single scalar field suffered from a fatal defect. In all the versions of this scenario known…
Cosmic strings from preheating
I. Tkachev, S. Khlebnikov, L. Kofman +1
We investigate nonthermal phase transitions that may occur after post-inflationary preheating in a simple model of a two-component scalar field with the effective potential $λ(ϕ_i^…
First-order nonthermal phase transition after preheating
S. Khlebnikov, L. Kofman, A. Linde +1
During preheating after inflation, parametric resonance rapidly generates very large fluctuations of scalar fields. In models where the inflaton field oscillates in a double-we…