A systematic study of the conditions and mechanisms of the onset of inflation in the early universe

M. Samiullah

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1989, vol. 158, issue 1, 377-386

Abstract: We study initial conditions and mechanisms of the onset of inflation using the functional Schrödinger picture of quantum field theory in 1 + 2-dimensional Robertson-Walker spacetime. The evolution of the scale factor of the universe is studied numerically by solving the coupled Einstein-matter equations for various initial configurations of the inflation- driving scalar field. In this note we present a sample of our numerical results.

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90537-2

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