Initial Conditions for Inflation

by Paolo Creminelli (International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP))

Wednesday 17 Jun 2020, 16:30 → 18:30 Europe/Zurich

4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

Cosmic inflation makes the universe flat and homogeneous, but under what conditions inflation starts? I will discuss analytical results that show, with weak assumptions, that inflation starts somewhere and some theorems in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions that support the de Sitter no-hair conjecture.

Zoom link:
https://cern.zoom.us/j/99377496227