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astro-ph2002★ 88 cited
The Curvaton Hypothesis and the eta-problem of Quintessential Inflation, with and without Branes
Konstantinos Dimopoulos
It is argued why, contrary to expectations, steep brane-inflation cannot really help in overcoming the eta-problem of quintessential inflation model-building. In contrast it is sho…
astro-ph2002
Modelling Quintessential Inflation with Branes
Konstantinos Dimopoulos
I discuss why quintessential inflation model-building is more natural in the context of brane cosmology and study the dynamics of a particular model as an example.
hep-ph2002★ 110 cited
Models of inflation liberated by the curvaton hypothesis
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, David H. Lyth
It is usually supposed that inflation is of the slow-roll variety, and that the inflaton generates the primordial curvature perturbation. According to the curvaton hypothesis, infl…