Slow roll inflation without fine tuning

Nov, 1999
12 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 472 (2000) 21-26
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CFNUL-99-05

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Abstract: (arXiv)
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.
  • inflation
  • inflaton: potential
  • space-time: Robertson-Walker
  • numerical calculations