# On the Problem of Initial Conditions for Inflation

@article{Linde2018OnTP,
title={On the Problem of Initial Conditions for Inflation},
author={Andrei Linde},
journal={Foundations of Physics},
year={2018},
volume={48},
pages={1246-1260}
}
• Andrei Linde
• Published 11 October 2017
• Economics
• Foundations of Physics
I review the present status of the problem of initial conditions for inflation and describe several ways to solve this problem for many popular inflationary models, including the recent generation of the models with plateau potentials favored by cosmological observations.
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