1-5 July 2019
The University of Manchester
Europe/London timezone
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The Local Organising Committee
Inhomogeneous Inflation as a probe of the shape of the potential
Presented by Josu C. AURREKOETXEA
on
1 Jul 2019
from
15:30
to
15:50
Content
In this talk I will discuss how different inflationary models are sensitive to inhomogeneities in the initial scalar field profile. In particular I will demonstrate that convex potentials always support large inhomogeneities and are more robust than concave ones. We developed a prescription to predict when a concave inflationary potential fails and I will show how it can be used to infer the initial conditions needed for a given model to be safe.
Place
Location: Schuster
Room: Rutherford Lecture Theatre
Primary authors
- Josu C. AURREKOETXEA King's College London
- Eugene LIM King's College London
- Dr. Katy CLOUGH Oxford University