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The Inflationary Paradigm - Lecture 2
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- 1 The Inflationary Paradigm Lecture 2
- 2 Inflation II
- 3 Scalar fields and stress energy
- 4 Slow roll
- 5 Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism
- 6 Slow roll formal approximation
- 7 Slow roll inflation
- 8 Worked example: chaotic inflation
- 9 Perturbations
- 10 Quantum fluctuations
- 11 Qualitatively
- 12 How much inflation?
- 13 Worked example: chaotic inflation
- 14 Metric Perturbations
- 15 The curvature perturbation
- 16 Scalar field perturbations
- 17 Quantum fluctuations
- 18 Scalar field perturbations: exact solutions
- 19 Quantization
- 20 Mode normalization
- 21 Example: de Sitter space
- 22 The power spectrum
- 23 Exercise
- 24 Q&A
- 25 Tensor modes
- 26 Consistency Relation
