73 citations · 102 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
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hep-th2014★ 73 cited
Just enough inflation: power spectrum modifications at large scales
Michele Cicoli, Sean Downes, Bhaskar Dutta +2
We show that models of `just enough' inflation, where the slow-roll evolution lasted only e-foldings, feature modifications of the CMB power spectrum at large angular scale…
astro-ph.CO2014★ 11 cited
Clearing the Brush: The Last Stand of Solo Small Field Inflation
Joseph Bramante, Sean Downes, Landon Lehman +1
By incorporating both the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the measured value of the spectral index, we set a bound on solo small field inflation of .…
hep-th2012★ 18 cited
Attractors, Universality and Inflation
Sean Downes, Bhaskar Dutta, Kuver Sinha
Studies of the initial conditions for inflation have conflicting predictions from exponential suppression to inevitability. At the level of phase space, this conflict arises from t…