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The Inflationary Paradigm by Nicola Bartolo
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- 1 Outline
- 2 INFLATION: WHY SO IMPORTANT?
- 3 What is inflation?
- 4 The rise and fall ... of the comoving Hubble horizon
- 5 INFLATION:
- 6 When? Fitting into the Big Picture
- 7 Initial conditions
- 8 HOW? INFLATION and THE INFLATON
- 9 Observational predictions
- 10 Zoology of inflationary models
- 11 Inflation dynamics and the level of gravity waves
- 12 Classifying inflationary models
- 13 Non-canonical kinetic term
- 14 ......and multi-field models of inflation
- 15 ......and vector fields during inflation?
- 16 Models with primordial vector fields during inflation
- 17 The f F2 model: power spectrum and bispectrum
- 18 Main message about IR modes:
- 19 Effective Field Theory approach to inflation and new symmetry breaking patterns
- 20 The Action up to third-order from the EFT expansion
- 21 Condensed Matter Cosmology??
- 22 Current observational status
- 23 Why Inflation is sensitive to high-energy fundamental physics?
- 24 We have a dream........
- 25 Why gravity waves of inflation are important?
- 26 Primordial non-Gaussianity
- 27 Why primordial NG is important?
- 28 A reminder......
- 29 Another good reason: Maldacena consistency relations
- 30 Shapes of NG: local NG
- 31 Equilateral NG
- 32 LESSON: NG...IT'S NOT JUST A NUMBER
- 33 Observational limits set by Planck
- 34 Implications for inflation models
- 35 Planck limits on trispectra
- 36 What can we expect in the future? Crossing critical thresholds
- 37 Oscillatory features
- 38 The nature of gravitational waves I
- 39 The nature of gravitational waves I These observables can be signatures of new physics.
- 40 Present constraints on tensor NG hkihk2hk3
- 41 Determining the nature of Gravitational Waves II
- 42 Measuring the Energy Scale of Inflation with Large Scale Structures
- 43 Other example
- 44 Chirality in the vybispectrum
- 45 Chiral GWs: detection prospects via CMB bispectra
- 46 Chiral scalar-tensor models: theoretical predictions
- 47 New avenues: Anisotropies of SGWB from inflation and primordial non-Gaussianity**
- 48 The heritage of inflation
- 49 Conclusions: looking into the future
- 50 The fd F2 model: power spectrum and bispectrum
- 51 The 12b F2 model: some highlights
- 52 Search in Presentation
- 53 New future/futuristic observational strategies for PNG
- 54 Expected constraints with SPHEREx
- 55 Open questions
