Onset of inflation amid backreaction from inhomogeneities

We analyze the onset of inflation for a simple single-field model when the system begins with significant inhomogeneities on length scales shorter than the initial Hubble radius. We incorporate certain nonlinear interactions among the coupled degrees of freedom by using the nonperturbative Hartree a...

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Main Authors: Bloomfield, Jolyon K., Fitzpatrick, Patrick, Hilbert, Kiriakos, Kaiser, David I.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124566