Killing the straw man: Does BICEP prove inflation at the GUT scale?

The surprisingly large value of r, the ratio of power in tensor to scalar density perturbations in the CMB reported by the BICEP2 Collaboration, if confirmed, provides strong evidence for Inflation at the GUT scale. While the Inflationary signal remains the best motivated source, a large value of r...

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Main Authors: James B. Dent, Lawrence M. Krauss, Harsh Mathur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-09-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269314005486