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Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2740–2743 (1990)

Hyperextended inflation

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Paul J. Steinhardt
School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Frank S. Accetta
Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Received 16 February 1990; published in the issue dated 4 June 1990

We present a dynamical mechanism for completing inflationary phase transitions via bubble nucleation which can satisfy all known constraints for a wide spectrum of models and parameters. The approach is a generalization of the recent ‘‘extended inflation’’ model which corrects a serious flaw. We find an essentially model-independent bubble-size distribution which may be important for large-scale structure.

© 1990 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2740
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2740
PACS:
98.80.Cq, 04.50.+h