Basis of Inflation

Abstract

Inflationary phenomena were discovered in seventies years of the previous century but the true triumph of inflation came in eighties, Its success in the explanation of the observable Universe was so impressive that the majority of scientists had no doubts on its correctness, at least as the basic principle, Unfortunately (or maybe, on the contrary, fortunately) the mechanism of inflation may be put into practice by a variety of ways. It led to overproduction of the inflationary models, a number of which increase constantly. Below we discuss the properties of inflationary scenario on the basis of chaotic inflation. Some other models are considered in Chapter 10 to give imagination on the beauty and rich possibilities of the inflationary paradigm.