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Slow-roll inflation without fine-tuning

Tiago Charters, Jose P. Mimoso, Ana Nunes

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9911093

Abstract

The slow-roll approximation is the usual starting point to study the constraints imposed on the inflaton potential parameters by the observational data. We show that, for a potential exhibiting at least two extrema and giving rise to a limited inflationary period, slow-roll does not have to be taken as an additional hypothesis and is in fact forced by the constraints on the number of e-foldings.

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