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Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 537 (2006) [53 pages]

Inflation dynamics and reheating

Bruce A. Bassett
Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Mercantile House, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, United Kingdom

Shinji Tsujikawa
Department of Physics, Gunma National College of Technology, Gunma 371-8530, Japan

David Wands
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Mercantile House, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, United Kingdom
Published 24 May 2006

The theory of inflation with single and multiple fields is reviewed paying particular attention to the dynamics of adiabatic and entropy/isocurvature perturbations which provide the primary means of testing inflationary models. The theory and phenomenology of reheating and preheating after inflation is reviewed providing a unified discussion of both the gravitational and nongravitational features of multifield inflation. In addition inflation in theories with extra dimensions and models such as the curvaton scenario and modulated reheating which provide alternative ways of generating large-scale density perturbations are covered. Finally interesting observational implications are discussed that can result from adiabatic-isocurvature correlations and non-Gaussianity.

©2006 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.78.537
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.78.537
PACS: 98.80.Cq
  • 98.80.Cq
    Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)
  • YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS: cosmology, gravitation, entropy, reviews, perturbation theory

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