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Inflation: Homogeneous Limit

V. Mukhanov

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0511570

Abstract

I review the motivation for the early-time cosmic acceleration stage in expanding universe and discuss simple inflationary scenarios. Preheating and reheating are considered in great detail. This is a sample chapter from my book "Physical Foundations of Cosmology" published by Cambridge University Press (2005).

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