# What does inflation really predict?

@article{Tegmark2005WhatDI,
title={What does inflation really predict?},
author={Max Tegmark},
journal={Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
year={2005},
volume={2005},
pages={001 - 001}
}
• Max Tegmark
• Published 12 October 2004
• Physics
• Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
If the inflaton potential has multiple minima, as may be expected in, e.g., the string theory ‘landscape’, inflation predicts a probability distribution for the cosmological parameters describing spatial curvature (Ωtot), dark energy (ρΛ, w etc), the primordial density fluctuations (Q, ns, d ns/d ln k etc) and primordial gravitational waves (r, nt etc). We compute this multivariate probability distribution for various classes of single-field slow-roll models, exploring its dependence on the…
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