# Inflationary paradigm after Planck 2013

@article{Guth2014InflationaryPA,
title={Inflationary paradigm after Planck 2013},
author={Alan Harvey Guth and David I. Kaiser and Yasunori Nomura},
journal={Physics Letters B},
year={2014},
volume={733},
pages={112-119}
}
• Published 2014
• Physics
• Physics Letters B
Abstract Models of cosmic inflation posit an early phase of accelerated expansion of the universe, driven by the dynamics of one or more scalar fields in curved spacetime. Though detailed assumptions about fields and couplings vary across models, inflation makes specific, quantitative predictions for several observable quantities, such as the flatness parameter ( Ω k = 1 − Ω ) and the spectral tilt of primordial curvature perturbations ( n s − 1 = d ln ⁡ P R / d ln ⁡ k ), among others… Expand
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