Extended Inflationary Cosmology
- 23 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 62 (4) , 376-378
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.62.376
Abstract
We present a new type of inflationary scenario based on metric formulations of gravity different from that of Einstein, e.g., a Brans-Dicke theory of gravity. Unlike previous inflation models, the inflationary phase transition can be completed via bubble nucleation. Hence, the fine tuning of an effective potential to obtain a slow-rollover transition is not required.Keywords
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