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Latest inflation model constraints from cosmic microwave background measurements
William H. Kinney, Edward W. Kolb, Alessandro Melchiorri +1
In this addendum to Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 023502, we present an update of cosmological constraints on single-field inflation in light of the Wilkinson Microwave Ansiotropy Probe sat…
The Phantom Bounce: A New Proposal for an Oscillating Cosmology
Katherine Freese, Matthew G. Brown, William H. Kinney
An oscillating universe cycles through a series of expansions and contractions. We propose a model in which ``phantom'' energy with a supernegative pressure () grows rapid…
Inflation over the hill
Konstantinos Tzirakis, William H. Kinney
We calculate the power spectrum of curvature perturbations when the inflaton field is rolling over the top of a local maximum of a potential. We show that the evolution of the fiel…
The pre-inflationary vacuum in the cosmic microwave background
Brian A. Powell, William H. Kinney
We consider the effects on the primordial power spectrum of a period of radiation-dominated expansion prior to the inflationary era. If inflation lasts a total of only 60 e-folds o…
Inflation After WMAP
William H. Kinney
I examine the status of inflationary cosmology in light of the first-year data from the WMAP satellite, focusing on the simplest models of inflation: those driven by a single scala…
Cosmology, inflation, and the physics of nothing
William H. Kinney
These four lectures cover four topics in modern cosmology: the cosmological constant, the cosmic microwave background, inflation, and cosmology as a probe of physics at the Planck…