Ubiquitous Inflaton in String-Inspired Models
- 9 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (6) , 1084-1087
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.1084
Abstract
A string theory based inflationary model is developed where the inflaton interacts with a multitude of massive string level states causing dissipation of vacuum energy. Inflation terminates in a warm universe without the need for reheating.Keywords
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