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[Pages:99]Making and Probing Inflation and Preheating

Non-equilibrium phenomena in the early universe Making Inflation in QFT and String Theory

Preheating after QFT and String Theory Inflation Observables from Preheating

Lev Kofman KITP Santa Barbara February 2008

Concise History of the Early Universe

Early Universe Inflation Scale factor

time

Realization of Inflation

Generation of Cosmological Fluctuations

Light field at inflation ? ? = Rd3k(ak?k(t)eik~x~ + h:c:)

t

H?1

? ?(x~)

x~

Hubble radius

end of inflation

recombination time

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