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astro-ph.CO2018★ 34 cited
Constraining the kinetically dominated Universe
L. T. Hergt, W. J. Handley, M. P. Hobson +1
We present cosmological constraints from Planck 2015 data for a universe that is kinetically dominated at very early times. We perform a Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis to estima…
astro-ph.CO2018★ 27 cited
A case for kinetically dominated initial conditions for inflation
L. T. Hergt, W. J. Handley, M. P. Hobson +1
We make a case for setting initial conditions for inflation at the Planck epoch in the kinetically dominated regime. For inflationary potentials with a plateau or a hill, i.e. pote…