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In this chapter we will explore the simplest incarnation of inflation, namely the inflation with a scalar field that gives an approximate cosmological constant. We will see that we can quantify the condition into what is known as “slow-roll inflation”. We will not address other types of inflation in this book, though we will explain what they can be.
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Năstase, H. (2019). Slow-Roll Inflation. In: Cosmology and String Theory. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 197. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15077-8_9
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