Inflationary Cosmology after Planck 2013
Abstract
I give a general review of inflationary cosmology and of its present status, in view of the 2013 data release by the Planck satellite. A specific emphasis is given to the new broad class of theories, the cosmological attractors, which have nearly model-independent predictions converging at the sweet spot of the Planck data in the (ns,r) plane. I also discuss the problem of initial conditions for the theories favored by the Planck data.
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